#somewhereinminnesota

I attended a writers’ conference this weekend at a beautiful remote resort in northern Minnesota called Jack Pines. I always love this event. The writing group that hosts it publishes an anthology each

Some days are just so full of activity that it makes your head spin. Like a day when you devote half of the day to attending a funeral, and another half a day doing various physical activities to recover

At last, I’m trying to get back to posting after many weeks of being a slacker! It was a great day for exercise today, as I helped my husband plow and shovel about 10 inches of fresh snow off the driveway

These are some crazy days, right? The dramatic things happening here in Minneapolis have been augmented by the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics (and Lindsey Vonn’s tragic crash), to make it a very newsy

I have not been getting out for walks as much as usual lately! Between a recent health thing, lots of snow and cold weather and the busy holidays, I hit a lull in activity. But this evening I bundled up

Fall comes in waves where I live. We first start seeing some color in August. But the complete transformation takes about eight weeks, during which the trees are so vibrant, you almost need sunglasses

Hubby and I got out on our nearby trail at dusk and managed to get a few miles in! There were actually quite a few people out, especially cyclists and dog walkers. In fact, long after it seemed too late

Here in Minnesota, it’s always a race to get the leaves gathered and the yards and porches and walkways and lawns tidied up before the snow falls. I think I did it! We had some beautiful days this weekend

Oh golly, time does get away from me. I can’t remember when I last posted. Maybe 10 days ago! I keep very busy with my day job and all of my activities, my creative writing, my writing groups, book clubs,

We are in the peak days of autumn color here in Minnesota. The brilliant autumn colors in the bright sun cause this exhilarating feeling to well up in me that I can’t explain. It happens to me every year.

Hubby and I took a walk on the long trail that takes us to the lake. It was the perfect evening. And plenty of others were enjoying exercise, the fresh autumn air and the fall colors. I love the sugar

My husband I are enjoying a weekend with relatives in the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, where they live. It’s about a four-hour drive from where we live, near Minneapolis. We had a great day, with several

Hubby and I took a neighborhood walk, looking for colorful trees. Of course the days are getting so short now that it was already dusk as we set out after dinner. So the colors were not as vibrant as one

My day actually started with an aqua cardio class at the gym. My step tracker is my phone so I didn’t capture any of those steps. But the gym is located at the edge of a marsh with a trail running through

We had a hot and breezy early fall day yesterday. I donned my hat with the strap that holds it on in the wind and headed for a lake in Minneapolis called Bde Maka Ska. The area was originally inhabited

Okay, here’s the problem with pickleball, versus walking a trail, and all the other things I do for fun and exercise: I almost never take any pictures! I’m honestly too busy running around on the court.

Even though this is my Actifit post for the day, and I got some great steps (and I Shouldbe writing a Wednesday Walk post), I’m going to write instead about my fall flowers and my happy bees. I did take

I took a walk around a reservoir where I love to walk anytime of year. We are still in early fall and the colors are not at their peak yet, so there is much more green than yellow. I took a little side

It happened sometime last spring, about a month after being hospitalized for a week with a deadly variety of pneumonia. I had played pickleball a few times and really liked it. But it wasn’t until I emerged

I took a lovely walk through some charming neighborhoods near the ball field where my son was playing baseball. He plays on a men’s league, and he always wants to get there an hour before game time, so