By binge reading I commit to reading the entire paper in one session. MICHAEL AND MITRAL Michael Casper is my former massage therapist at The Wellness Center MN and a Longfellow neighborhood …

Here I am wondering what this column is about knowing that the only way I am going to find out is to start writing. Surprise! If you have read this far you have taken the plunge into the river (flow) …

Stories abound like produce at a farmers market this time of year. Here are a few of mine. SPEAKING UP FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM AND PEOPLE WHO LEAVE MINNEAPOLIS June 15. I am at Richfield Lutheran …

It appears that a tradition is forming: whereby the last week in May (what I call Memorial Day week). I spend that week visiting with Iowa relatives, visiting the burial sites of my brother and my …

It looks like this year I will renew my visits to south Minneapolis Farmers Markets starting with Midtown Farmers Market and Neighborhood Roots Farmers Markets (Southwest, Kingsfield and Nokomis). …

I’m sitting in front of my computer’s equivalent of a blank page with a deadline approaching. What to do with this blank page. It appears I am going to do something. I have already written 59 …

This column is leading with me fondly remembering Adam Schindler, a favorite acupuncturist of mine when he was practicing at Everspring Health in Uptown. At that time, he knew I was starting to write …

I am among other things at heart a Minneapolis street person. I have just learned that the boss, Bruce Springsteen, has written a song called “The Streets of Minneapolis.” The theme of this …

As far as I can tell the writing of this column started the last Friday of December. I was approaching the front door of Turtle Bread intent on participating in Elder Voices (Telling Our …

Welcome to 2026 and year five of Stories and Journeys. This time of year I get to experience and celebrate light in the midst of darkness. There is my personal experience of aches and pains somehow …

MY NO KINGS FRONT YARD PROTEST It’s Oct. 18. No Kings protest day. A few days earlier I knew I wanted to do something. It was unlikely I could make it to one of the formally announced protests. …

SEPT. 26: ELDER VOICES EXPERIENCES AN UNEXPECTED MILESTONE I have been showing up for Elder Voices (Telling Our Stories/Sharing Our Journeys) at Turtle Bread for several years going back to 2016. As …

Aug. 29 A sketch artist shows up at Elder Voices (Telling Our Stories/Sharing Our Journeys). Her name is Anita White. She wants to sketch us as we meet. We agree. There are six of us at today’s …

August 14 I’m sitting in the front room of my house. Outside my front window looking out on 46th Ave, I’m watching my favorite movie. I call it "As Life Goes By." People are going by …

Until a few years ago there was a rocking chair in my house. It got moved into the garage to make way for a different rocking chair. Letting go of the rocking chair was hard. It took me some time to …

It's Saturday morning June 14. I woke up making a list of my health issues. I've done that several times over the course of the last month in preparation for visits to doctors, physician assistants …

I first wrote this for Father's Day 2021. I have previously written a Stories and Journeys column acknowedging my mother's influence on my life. It's time for me to acknowlege my father with Father's …

It is becoming important for me to ground myself before I write. At the end of the day, Stories and Journeys is me paying attention to my internal knowing, being still and true to myself. With this …

With warmer weather coming, I have been able to get outside and walk more. Walking more is causing me to be aware that it is so easy for me to take my feet for granted. So, in this column, I am …

Moving past the 2024 Presidential  election results for me means that I have reached the following conclusion: There was dis-information and voter suppression. Especially voter suppression. My …