Tag: duluth life
member name: Kat Eldred
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December 30, 2006 03:43 PM EST --
We were sitting in the living room when the news anchor announced: Saddam Hussein was put to death. I had heard rumblings that it was “imminent”, “soon to happen”, . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:54 PM EDT --
If you are a Rummage Sale enthusiast you will not want to miss the 26th Annual Park Point Rummage Sale this week-end if you are within driving distance of Duluth, MN. I love rummage sales (or “tag . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:01 AM EST --
MPR's Stephanie Hemphill reports on The Border Patrol and Grand Marais:
Some people in the Grand Marais area are upset about plans to build a new office for the Border Patrol. The Patrol says it . . .
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November 18, 2006 03:36 PM EST --
It might seem "corny" to some, but I started this tradition at our family Thanksgiving dinner last year (I say "tradition", but that doesn't mean they'll let me do it again . . .
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December 12, 2006 10:43 AM EST --
This is something I would appreciate having access to. I have often lamented about the lack of rail passage in the United States, after having lived in Europe and never needing a car to get . . .
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December 21, 2006 03:30 PM EST --
I remember my first Paella ever eaten. A college friend and I were traveling through Spain one summer and we had just arrived in Barcelona (off the train) and were hungry. . . .
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January 02, 2007 12:33 PM EST --
The thesaurus in my Microsoft Word program defines “enlightened” with the following words: "progressive, free-thinking, liberal, open-minded, and tolerant."
But, if someone . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:47 AM EST --
This is an interesting discussion and seems pretty pertinent to me. A similar debate has been going on about California's use of the Colorado river for years.
Minnesota . . .
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April 17, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
I couldn’t resist, after I had heard about this short quiz on the Pew Research Center’s Web site last night on NPR’s All Things Considered – I knew I had to take it. . . .
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November 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
The pendulum of politics always swings in the U.S. It's one thing I have always had faith in. Sometimes it takes a while; but through this mid-term election the "pulse of the . . .
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November 10, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
MPR's Bob Kelleher, reports on Andy Saur's Viking quest:
A Duluth man is on a quest to change the music the Minnesota Vikings play in the Metrodome before kicking the football. Andy Saur says . . .
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November 27, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
I rarely read fiction. So, I find myself strangely attracted to books about human behaviors, demographics, psychology and biographies of human beings who have made significant . . .
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January 09, 2007 10:53 AM EST --
To some the term “cross-cultural training” might smack of 1970’s altruism and I’m not sure it [the term] is even used anymore. Maybe it’s morphed into “diversity . . .
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January 24, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
Please indulge me, I love words and language and this one is fun. In its 17th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “plutoed” as the 2006 word . . .
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February 12, 2007 11:19 AM EST --
I don’t care who debates what about global warming, we don’t need to debate the fact that we are dependent on oil or that the exhaust from our cars is damaging to the earth and our bodies. . . .
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March 19, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
I benefited from universal health care when I was a student living and working in England back in the 1980’s. I walked into the free clinic and within an hour I had been treated . . .
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May 03, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Until April this year, I did not really know what an MRSA was – that was until my daughter was diagnosed with it. Since then my vocabulary has been expanded to include doxycycline and . . .
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May 24, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Our family outing last Sunday brought us to the doorsteps of the Eco-Home at Hawk Ridge in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood.. The kids were not overly thrilled about the venture, but my husband . . .
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June 19, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an ordinance on April 20, 2007 that makes the city the first in the nation to outlaw the use of plastic grocery bags.
The ordinance requires large supermarkets . . .
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April 24, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
Sometimes you walk upon a pleasant surprise and it brings a smile to your face. This particular location in Duluth always manages to charm me. One day there was tulip petals scattered, . . .
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