Watching the first episode of Ryan Murphy's Lizzie Borden series and am reminded that "subtle" is not one of Murphy's attributes.
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47 is not my president. Writer, knitter, walker, parent, dog person who drops more F bombs the older she gets. Married and not looking so just don't. She/her
Let's all call Tom Emmer's office (202-225-2331 or 763-241-6848) to ask where he buys his groceries as we'd all like to find that ground beef he says costs $2 a pound. www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/...
Does ground beef cost $2 per pound?
You'd have to time travel back to the early aughts to find such affordable cows.
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Arriving into the Duluth harbor: the Alpena, the oldest still-operating ship on the Great Lakes (from 1942).
We've had a lot of fun in Duluth the last couple of days, including this visit to the William A Irvin Museum, a 1938 ore carrier that somehow survived its days on the Great Lakes.
Took the whole summer to find the summer movie I was looking for: Coyote vs. Acme.
Kudos to the woman entering the fair wearing a shirt reading, "All peopled out"
The crop art exhibit is always one of the best things at the Fair, but gotta say, the crop artists completely outdid themselves this year, especially when it comes to certain events earlier this year.
56 pieces of crop art from this year's state fair now in "Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance" (they keep adding more as artists give permission or clamor to get in there): www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
Watching the original My Brilliant Career, and wow, Sam Neill is so young.
The last day of the 2026 #SealeyChallenge! My final book is Victoria Chang's amazing and devastating With My Back to the World, about art, grief, and depression. A stunning book to end the challenge with.
Day 30 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Mother's Tongue by Heid Erdrich, a rich, sometimes funny, sometimes haunting look at myriad aspects of motherhood. Can't recommend it enough.
For day 29 of the #SealeyChallenge, Linda Gregg's The Sacraments of Desire. This book was published 35 years ago, so times/attitudes have changed, but while there's a lot of beauty here, there's also a complete lack of awareness of the poet's own privilege, especially about the poverty of others.
A Children’s Treasury Of Hate For The Honey Brisket Battered Potatoes From Australian Battered Potatoes: From @jrnorton.bsky.social: “Weirdly starchy, almost completely lacking in flavor, dotted with bits of saccharine sweet blobs of brown meat, almost unidentifiable as food.“ (con’t)
Day 28 of the @SealeyChallenge: Happiness by Deborah Keenan. Lest you think this is a smiley-happy book, it's a more serious look at happiness than that and all the complicated ways people have of finding happiness in their lives, or not. Lovely work.
Jane Kenyon not only wrote beautiful poems of her own, she worked on translating poems by Anna Akhmatova. This slim volume is lovely. I have no idea if the translations are sound, but I also don't care. Day 27, #SealeyChallenge
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Dolly Parton turned down offers for the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice during his first term in office
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In honor of Dolly Parton, I share this poem from the beautiful Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer book, The Unfolding, for day 26 of the #SealeyChallenge.
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
You know, I didn't realize when I pulled books off my shelf for the #SealeyChallenge (day 25!) that so many of them would be centered on loss and grieving. But there it is. Today: Mary Oliver's Thirst, with this short stunner: wordsfortheyear.com/2016/12/31/t...
“The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver (and a note from Christy)
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. “The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver, fr…
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This is interesting: How the State Fair handles severe weather: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Fair warning: How the Minnesota State Fair handles severe weather
Meteorologists from the National Weather Service's Chanhassen office are stationed inside the fair's emergency operations center throughout the fair.
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Day 24 of the #SealeyChallenge: Dream Barker by Jean Valentine. An early poem in this book, "For a Woman Dead at 30," led me to Google Valentine and learn she was a contemporary of Sylvia Plath. Which is probably why I think the poem below is very reminiscent of Plath's Daddy.
