Tag: Columns

  • Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Notebook Recollections: Walk This Way

    Local staple Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form of exercise but kept at it for…

  • Summer with Saint Paul Public Library 

    Summer with Saint Paul Public Library 

    By Terry GiintherLibrary Manager Saint Paul Public Library offers opportunities to enjoy reading and learning at home, at the beach, at the park, at the cabin,…

  • Federation Update

    Federation Update

    fortroadfederation.org Fort Road cookbook now availableMonths in the making, the Fort Road cookbook is finally available for purchase. For $25, you can get a hold of…

  • Let’s get out this summer

    Let’s get out this summer

    Hello St. Paul Friends, Summer in St. Paul is now in full swing with warm temperatures and exciting news about new parks. I want to update…

  • Musical Chairs, Scarcity and Replacement Theory

    Musical Chairs, Scarcity and Replacement Theory

    Building an Antiracist Community Musical Chairs, Scarcity and Replacement Theory Musical chairs is a game most of us likely played at some time or other. Chairs…

  • When Thoughts and Prayers are Not Enough

    When Thoughts and Prayers are Not Enough

    by Jonathan Dickman, MD “May our thoughts and prayers be with the [insert name here] family.” “We will now have a moment of silence for…

  • The Selection is a hardcore mashup of Cinderella, The Bachelor

    The Selection is a hardcore mashup of Cinderella, The Bachelor

    The Selection, by Kiera Cass, is a dystopian romance that is essentially a hardcore mashup of Cinderella and The Bachelor. This story starts in the…

  • The Barrens wows on every page

    The Barrens wows on every page

    By Tim Rumsey, MDThe Barrens, “a novel of love and death in the Canadian arctic” is the writing debut of father–daughter, co-authors Kurt and Elle…

  • Soap bubbles for the Angels

    Soap bubbles for the Angels

    Notebook Recollections: Soap bubbles for the Angels Local staple Tim Rumsey walked to work most days from 1987 to 2000. He began as a form…