Off the Grid in Minneapolis

I bought a Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS Digital ELPH 12.1 MEGA PIXELS camera this past winter. It cost me about $140, and I've used it to t...

It was my niece's birthday party this weekend. I was on the roof setting up the tarp, just in time for the heavy rain. I heard a clap of...

It's planting week. I've been turning soil the last two days, bio-intensively. I'll be turning soil every day this week, about 8...

Last Saturday I met my mother for a gathering of statewide members of the Republic of Minnesota. As I mentioned in the last post, they belie...

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday making love to my yard, turning soil, building soil, planting seed. It was such a relief, knowing that the cit...

I took the train downtown again Friday. I was looking for Tom, who had appeared on a local tv news piece on my situation that aired the prev...

Monday morning I took the train downtown to City Hall, and the Mayor's office. There was a bizarre episode walking into that monolithic ...

Thursday morning I was awakened by a knock at my door. Through the window I saw a white car, with the Minneapolis Inspections Department ins...

April 20, 4/20, international pot day, or something like that. I moved my vegetable starts from the kitchen to the bedroom, as the bedroom ...

Bitter cold today, snow on the ground in the morning and a stiff, relentless wind. I'm caved up in my room with the electric space heate...