Wednesday, February 25th 2015: Sharon M. Day presents “Uprisings” at the Lowertown Reading Jam
Uprisings!
People are arising
All over this land.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, February 16 – Sunday, February 22, 2015
The holidays keep piling up. I think most of us survived Valentine’s Day, and we do not even have to turn the page to get into that traditionally festive mood for President’s Day.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, February 9 – Sunday, February 15, 2015
For most of my life, I have felt like a fish out of water on Valentine’s Day. First grade logistics that had a Valentine for each classmate from every other classmate addressed and placed in cereal boxes still seems to be the best way to handle the holiday.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, February 2 – Sunday, February 8, 2015
I spent last month with a lot of books. Too many books! I know a lot of you are saying, how could there be too many books? I have several answers for that query that fit today’s context and many others, but they are all hard to reconcile with my bookseller past and pack-rat pathology.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, January 26 – Sunday, February 1, 2015
I watched the State of the Union address with my father on Tuesday at an undisclosed location. (Not with the cabinet member who had the “football,” and I am not disclosing only because it was someplace other than Saint Paul.)
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, January 19 – Sunday, January 25, 2015
Even though the Saint Paul Winter Carnival is creeping up on us, our atmosphere is making its march toward spring. How is this? The calendar still says “January.”
January 28th 2015: Jessica Lopez Lyman presents “Crossing the Blue Wall” at the Lowertown Reading Jam
The “blue wall” is the impervious police/military state that brings destruction and injustice. Recently, we have seen resistance to the violence of the blue wall in the United States through the Black Lives Matter movement springing forth in Ferguson, New York, Oakland, and other places across the country.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, January 12, – Sunday, January 18, 2015
I’m looking for a winter escape. I am not a snowbird, nor am I likely to find the space for a sunny vacation in an alternative climate. Alternative states of mind and heart are easily at hand.
I Only Wanted Chicken
I always like to think about the fun one could have around the late 1960s. We could dance the night away. The clubs you could go to if you wanted to dress up or dress down.
A Garden That Changes
Even though it seems like the economy has gone through the wrong tunnel, we as a community have to keep going through the right tunnel. We come together as one, to a place where everyone can pitch in and get something in return.
Respite
Skin flakes like the brown earth.
The grass, each small and singular strand,
lies listless, without hope.
Bratz
A HALE FELLOW with a flair for retail, Todd Romocky grills, listens, hustles, grins. “I’ve been a meat-cutter for the past twenty years.
