The magazine Minnesota Moments features in its winter edition ten Minnesota bloggers who write about life in this Midwestern state. I was honored to be included. It’s a nice collection of writers. My section gets into some nitty-gritty about choices you have to make when you write about controversy and politics, and some of you…

As 2011 comes to a close I present this blog’s top posts for the year. After that I’ll share some of my personal favorites. I’m always fascinated at how different those two lists end up being. In fact, the top traffic list reads like some kind of comedy of errors in my ill-fated attempt to…

Some of you might know that my wife Christina is a much, much more successful blogger than I am, writing the national frugal living blog Northern Cheapskate. Well, for the first time ever I have written a guest post for her blog. I’m writing about my experience being “up sold” during a recent cell phone…

It always amazes me that the crisp modern skyline of Minneapolis is contained in the same state as the ore dumps of the Range, my dirt road and the woods around my house. Today I’m down at the Midtown Exchange Building for the 2011 Minnesota Blogger Conference. I’ll be researching ways to make this blog…

My wife the Northern Cheapskate (TM, not what I call her around the house) and I will be attending the Minnesota Blogger Conference in Minneapolis tomorrow. Thought it’s perhaps self-indulgent, I may share some amusing thoughts about my foray into the dense, urban core of Minnesota’s blogosphere on Saturday. If you’ll be there say hello.…

I’m taking some needed family time the next few days but have a couple big announcements before I do. First, I’ve learned that I’ll be speaking at the TEDx 1,000 Lakes Conference in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the Reif Center on Monday, Sept. 19. I’ll be taking many of the ideas you read here at…