Bob Collins
Winter is our meteorological purification. So I squint as I look in the backyard. I can almost see July. And it is good. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Embracing winter
Everything’s cool in International Falls. Read more →
We hold doors for each other. We let the pedestrians cross against the light and think nothing of it because they’re out there and we’re safe in a car and, what the heck does it matter anyway? We’re nicer
this week and we got that way without terrorists having to ram jetliners into buildings like the last time we were all nice to each other because we were all in it together. Read more →
No more entries, please, we have a winner in the competition to see how many sleds sled dogs can pull. Ten. This is how folks in northern Minnesota survive winter. Read more →
Peter Cox’s excellent story on the perfect ice conditions on area lakes has a life lesson to it: you can’t always get what you want. And one’s man’s trash… and all that. Read more →
No, we don’t know who this is skating on Lake Minnetonka and casting fate to the wind.
But we like your spunk, kid. Read more →
A growing trend on the slopes makes so much sense, it’s surprising nobody thought of it before: chairlift speed dating. Read more →
If not for Rowland Fowler, the people of Embarrass, Minn., might not have much of a reason to be so darned proud of their little slice of paradise.
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No matter how much we may love winter, this is the time of the year where even a moderate dumping of snow can send us over the edge.
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There are some moments that seem uniquely Minnesotan. This is one of them. Read more →
There’s little that adds more chill to the wind than images of baseball stadiums in winter. As long as we’re going to have winter, though, we might as well make something of it. Check out this video with snow artist Simon Beck at Target Field. Read more →
Hi there, visitors. Welcome to our state. Before you unpack, please understand that one of the reasons why the locals — who love the cold, they say — are talking about how terribly cold it is today is so that you’ll think highly of our ability to ignore the cold and pretend we love it so much we dread the coming summer. Just humor us; it’s a thing.
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We say again: Nobody does winter like the people of St. Paul. St. Paul doesn’t pretend to embrace winter. It actually does, which is why Janna Armsteade and Brad Tegantvort are getting hitched.
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The Lord loveth a cheerful plower. Read more →