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The Man of the House

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021 / crowcityblog / 4 Comments

My youngest son and I have a joke we share. Before I leave for work, I tell him he is the man of the house while I am gone. This started last spring when his kindergarten class was quarantined and his older brother still got to go to school. Now I say he’s the man … Continue reading The Man of the House

Hoop Medicine

August 30, 2021September 1, 2021 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

My youngest son splashes in the lake with his mother as I anxiously pan the beach for Miles. At last, I feel a momentary pang of love as I recognize him among the frolicking, half-clad children. He is bent over, digging a hole in the sand with a shovel. Wait. I take a step closer … Continue reading Hoop Medicine

Trash Fishing

August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 / crowcityblog / 2 Comments

We celebrated my 49th birthday by dining at Al’s Breakfast in the Dinkytown neighborhood of Minneapolis.  My wife and kids feasted on pancakes while I enjoyed bacon and eggs with what might have been the most scrumptious wheat toast I’ve ever consumed.  Amazingly, this hole-in-the-wall establishment has been in business since 1950.  It has no … Continue reading Trash Fishing

Riprap Sushi

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 / crowcityblog / 2 Comments

The Big Sioux River is stained darker than my morning coffee from all the silt and manure that’s washed off the farmland upstream.  I’m fishing below the spillway after leaving my sons to play at their cousin’s house.  I caught a couple good walleyes at this spot years ago--that other lifetime before I was married.  … Continue reading Riprap Sushi

Waiting for the Sun

March 1, 2021March 24, 2021 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

The stasis of family life can sometimes seem unbearable. We make origami shapes of our hearts, folding ourselves smaller and smaller to not offend the other. It’s a sad spectacle for the kids to watch, even if they half understand it. “Is Covid worse than cancer?” “I’ve been thinking a lot about that,” she says. … Continue reading Waiting for the Sun

Cawing into the Abyss

December 14, 2020December 17, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

Crows assemble at this U of M tower like children around a birthday cake, hoping for the killing to begin so they can have lunch. You are fools they say, everyone is black until you pick our feathers. Each December they fill the sky along the river in flocks too numerous to count. Such gatherings … Continue reading Cawing into the Abyss

Down by the River

August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

When I got home from work, the boy told me he wanted to go fishing. I paused before answering out of weariness. What I really needed was a cold beer and a hot shower. “Let your dad rest and get settled,” my wife said in support. “I’ll never say no to that,” I said. “We … Continue reading Down by the River

Graffiti Bridge

August 6, 2020 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

I decided to put the words and the worries aside and just take some pictures. The suburbanites hurtling over us in their cars had no idea about the art and the wonder below. I could leave the city, put myself deeper in debt and find a nice spot by some lake. I might catch bigger … Continue reading Graffiti Bridge

Roswell City Limits

October 26, 2019 / crowcityblog / Leave a comment

My father died on February 25th, 2012. He was 67 years old. He had made an appointment to see a doctor that day, but the pain got to be too much and he ended up dialing 911. He had a perforated stomach that led to septicemia which is a bacterial infection of the blood. He … Continue reading Roswell City Limits

Banjo Blueberry Crumb Cake

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 / crowcityblog / 1 Comment

My wife is forever losing her blueberries.  They tumble like marbles from the peanut butter slathered bagels that she sprinkles so generously with chia seeds.  She’s a healthy one, a vegetarian, my wife.  I refer to them, jokingly, as her “birdseed bagels.”  She claims not to see them, these runaway blueberries.  They “get lost” in … Continue reading Banjo Blueberry Crumb Cake

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