A Life Without Apology

Andy's been in bands for as long as I've known him; in fact, that's how we met almost exactly eight years ago. He was in your typical college "garage band" back then, playing house parties in basements and cramped student housing. It's funny because when I first met him (before seeing his band pla...

I love to lie in bed on a warm summer night with the window open and listen to the trains going by several miles off to the west through Big Lake, MN.  If I close my eyes (and filter out the sound of traffic on the freeway in the opposite direction), I can almost convince [...]

I recently conducted a totally unofficial and obviously biased Facebook poll asking my friends how they felt about SB 1070. In their responses, I also asked my friends to write about their most memorable experience(s) with immigrants -- legal or illegal. I was attempting to test a theory of mine t...

In lieu of a post full of words describing my beautiful babies, I'm just going to post pictures. That's about all I can manage right now--this 'growing up' business is a very emotional process!