Art supply drive
Donate creativity and connection to the Red River Valley memory loss community This February, join us in filling the art supply closet at Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley. In doing so, you play a part in helping transform the...
Weaponize your words for peace
On January 7, 2026, immediately after executing Renée Nicole Macklin Good, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fired a verbal shot for the history books: “F*cking b*tch.” Later on that morning, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stood...
When ‘good enough’ means something else
During the COVID years, K and I purchased two beautiful handmade standing garden beds from our carpenter friend J. At the time we thought growing our own vegetables, herbs, and flowers would give us the chance to bring some much-needed...
‘Useful passions’: Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence. The man who seeks to justify his life must want freedom itself absolutely and above everything else.” (Simone...
If writing is butter, then A.I. is margarine
In 1869, Emperor Napoleon III dreamed of a fatty, meltable substance that could mimic the taste and texture of labor-intensive butter, only producible at a fraction of the cost and effort. With soldiers to feed and malnourishment rampant among citizens,...