I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, Intricately woven in the depths of the earth. (Psalm 139:14) I read the extraordinary story about trying to understand how a cat’s brain works in the Minneapolis […]

You may not know it to look at me but I am kind of a klutz. I have been accidentprone since early childhood. My earliest memory is being “accidentally” chunked in the eyebrow by a hatchet wielded by my younger brother. He was not being mean. He just had a bad aim and my head was in the way. Thenthere […]

Cinderelly, Cinderelly, night and day it’s Cinderelly— and she’s coming to Grand Marais December 10-13! Grand Marais Playhouse presents Cinderella as its annual holiday season children’s play this month and it is only 35 minutes long. What? 35 minutes? That’s the question I posed to Playhouse Director Sue Hennessy last week. After previously enjoying holiday plays of full length—Seussical, Annie […]

The unseasonable days of warm are officially over. Temperatures have been in the lower twenties after dark and peaking at just above freezing during the day. Very few lakes have been showing any significant ice yet, but the Cross River at the west end of Gunflint Lake is slowly building some frozen shorelines. A few people have said this is […]