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    Photo Friday Beebe Pond Edition

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    July 10, 2026
    Photo Friday Beebe Pond Edition

    Found Four New Hearts (Sort of)

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  • Blogging, Life

    Quitting One Pursuit

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    June 30, 2026
    Quitting One Pursuit

    Each thing I do I rush through so I can dosomething else. In such a way do the days pass — Stephen Dobyns, Pursuit [NOTE: I want to preface this post with an acknowledgement of the incredible luck of my circumstances in life. As a Cis Straight White Male I…

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    RunSploring Partly Midwest Edition

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    June 29, 2026

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    Blog For 100 Days : ✅

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    June 20, 2026
    Blog For 100 Days : ✅

    Found six more Hearts

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    Photo Friday: Danforth Street Bridge

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    June 19, 2026

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    Antepenultimate

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    June 18, 2026

    This blog post is brought to you in three parts I – Isn’t this blog supposed to be a bout cooking? I mean, kinda. The projects that got me writing here the most were definitely about recipes and cookbooks, but even when I was writing about Damn Good Food that…

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    Double Booked

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    June 17, 2026

    Look I read five more books. Mind of My Mind is the second book in Octavia Butler’s Patternist series. Eariler this year I read Octavia’s Brood, a collections of science fiction stories from the social justice movement inspired by Octavia Butler (the name of the book comes from Lilith’s Brood,…

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  • Blogging, Technology

    Tech Tuesday: WordPress Block Party

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    June 16, 2026

    Time to Read: Modern WordPress Themes use blocks to create a blog post or web page For my last Tech Tuesday (at least for a while) I thought I would write a short post about how the WordPress editor works. Sorry to bore you with all of this inside blogging…

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    I’m Not Mad, Just Disappointed

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    June 15, 2026
    I’m Not Mad, Just Disappointed

    Eighteen months ago I quit using Facebook and Instagram. I outlined my reasons at the time. The main one being that Facebook took the 2024 election as permission to remove its DEI programs and their changes on how they would do fact checking – or rather how they wouldn’t. While…

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  • Life, Donation, Restaurants

    Stand With Minnesota

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    June 14, 2026
    Stand With Minnesota

    Kira and I have been lucky enough to move around a lot and explore some great cities (Tokyo, Los Angeles, and now Boston), but Saint Paul, MN will probably always feel like home. It is where our kids grew up and where we have spent the majority of our adult…

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Blogging for 100 days in 2026

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Day One Hundred

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Start with these stories…

  • Why Mike? Why Mitch?

    Why Mike? Why Mitch?

  • A is for Apple, B is for Banana

    A is for Apple, B is for Banana

  • Day One: Nature’s E-Bike

    Day One: Nature’s E-Bike

  • One Summer in Alaska

    One Summer in Alaska

  • Pushing the Boundaries

    Pushing the Boundaries

  • New Year, New Arbitrary Project that gives me an excuse to blog and cook

    New Year, New Arbitrary Project that gives me an excuse to blog and cook

  • 100 Days of Blogging

    100 Days of Blogging

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