I and my family have made our annual trek to the North Shore of Lake Superior for Thanksgiving weekend. This is year #10. We set up residence for 4 days in a condo at the beautiful Lutsen Resort, only 5o miles from the Canadian border. It also happens to be site of my niece’s wedding, […]
Road Trip | Interstate 35
After three “shorter” road trips this year (Oregon in April, Kansas in July, and Montana in August), we’re finally getting around to our annual epic road trip. Being that it is November, we decided to make a swing south, with stops in Austin, New Orleans, Panama City Beach, and Memphis, visiting relatives and taking in […]
Regional Rivalries
We have a joke here in Minnesota: “What’s the best thing to come out of Iowa?” “Interstate 35.” Apologies to my Iowan friends, but I’m sure that you just turn the joke around anyway. An interesting feature of life in the United States is the rivalries that exist between various regions and states. Some rivalries […]
Who Can Turn the World on With Her Smile?
The great actress and comedienne Mary Tyler Moore died on Wednesday. She got her start on television playing Laura on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later starred in her own show, simply named, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. When my family moved to the Twin Cities in 1973 from Pakistan, the show was already a […]
How are the Roads?
For centuries (maybe millennia), a common way for people in China to greet each other has been to ask a simple question: “have you eaten yet?” When I lived in China’s northeast region (“dongbei”), it seemed that every chance meeting or new conversation began with “leng bu leng?” Are you cold? We are now in […]
Springtime in Minnesota
I spotted this on Facebook earlier today, and just had to pass it along; it is so very true! Related Posts: Spring Has Been Cancelled Death of a Snowbank Bring Warm Clothes
