If it feels like midnight when it’s really 6:29, you may have had a couple of cocktails with early dinner in November.

Overheard out for dinner: “Robert’s Rules of Order? Wait, did I come up with that?”

Rush County, Kansas. November 19, 2025. Windmill, cow jaw and teeth, dried sunflower stalks. 1/2

Cuyahoga River fire in '69 was the gamechanger but the river burned at least 13 times. around the US, river fires were not uncommon. the comeback of the Cuyahoga specifically, declared "dead" locally in some reports even in 1967, is a success story for the ages that requires constant retelling.

“Mendota from Fort Snelling” by Seth Eastman (1848), seen last weekend at the Minnesota History Center.

View of the Rio São Francisco in Brazil, with Fort Maurits. Starring an A+ capibara. Painted in 1639 by visiting Dutch artist Frans Post, whose day has been today.

shoutout to pigeons!

Oh, deer! Two white-tailed deer teeth, a probable deer rib fragment, & other miscellaneous faunal bone fragments from unprocessed shell midden soil samples from the Late Weeden Island (ca. 700-1000 CE) site of 8LI76, Liberty Co., Florida. #archaeology

I saw some ducks on Gitchigami/Lake Superior and it helped

My daughter is playing Kids Don’t Follow on her college radio show right now #prouddad

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Thankful that I’ll be listening to Schlock Jocks on WSLC radio this afternoon, wslcradio.org, an hour earlier here in the Central time zone.

This express bus isn't just going fast — the driver is taking us into a different dimension.

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting! owamniyomni.org/design/

“Standing for Unity, Healing Jingle Dance” by Eugene Tapahe (2016), seen today in the Our Home: Native Minnesota exhibit at the Minnesota History Center.

On this day 140 years ago, Louis Riel died in #Regina. Today, we honour the life, legacy, and the fight of #LouisRiel for #Metis rights and recognition.

We saw a ghost story tonight

I’m enjoying time with relatives who are visiting the Twin Cities this weekend and my nephew cannot stop laughing about “Dinkytown”

Used bookstore browsing and made the mistake of texting pics to my daughter of books she might like, so now I have purchased them.

Out for ice cream in the middle of November

Celebrating the birth of animator and filmmaker Terry Gilliam 83 years after his arrival in a Fetus Frightening Room somewhere in Minneapolis, Minnesota. #TerryGilliam #MontyPython

This is a pretty cool skull. I’m not sure what kind of bovid.

Happy birthday to geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who in his famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below 🧵 #histsci 🧪🐡⚒️

A silver and gilt, shell-shaped box from Tomba degli Ori, Canosa, Bari, Italy. Dated late 3rd to early 2nd C BCE. Interior and exterior of the lid shows a Nereid on a sea monster. Greek Inscription on the hinge: Of Opaka Sabaleida #FindsFriday #Archaeology 📸 my own, Taranto Archaeological Museum.

Rearranging books and the cat is helping.

November oak leaves

Strike a pose!

Important update

I enjoyed learning about gymnastics and the Turners during the Preserve Minnesota Conference in New Ulm last September.

Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fungi-of-shropshire

In her heart, she knew that he didn't have much going for him apart from that shell collection. Neptune & Amphitrite, 1583, by Cornelis van Haarlem whose day is today.

Wow. Can't say much else. The overhead corona was unbelievable. The most intense reds and greens. ❤️💚😍💃 She'll be dancing until sunrise. I visited Franconia Sculpture Park over summer and it has been on my aurora photo bucket list ever since. That's where I went last night. Schafer, Minnesota.

Looking straight up in St Paul

The view from our house in St. Paul.

Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...

Inside you there are two Maggies...

Maggie, my Monday telework buddy.

A good Mi'gmaq word that I have just learned: mui'newqamigsit, or "[that person] has the temperament of a bear."

Oligocene-Miocene silicified coral Indigenous hard percussion flake & bifacial thinning flake from the Wetherington Island Site (8HI473), Hillsborough Co., Florida. 1/ #fossils #archaeology

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

A nice lady previously unknown to me started to put her container of croissants into my shopping cart at Costco, and all I could manage to say was “Um …”

This encapsulates something about the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is author and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Larry Millett, speaking on how far apart the Twin Cities were, psychologically and practically, pre-interstate.

Snowflakes in the air!

Innocent!

#OnThisDay Nov 9, 1975, 2:15pm: SS Edmund Fitzgerald pulls away from Burlington Northern Railroad Ore Dock No. 1 in Superior, Wisconsin, laden with 26,000 long tons of taconite destined for National Steel at River Rouge in Detroit, Michigan.

Almost midnight

Beer light reflection at our new favorite local tonight, lots of loud singing here but everyone is so good so it’s kind of like being at a concert.

Regimental flag of the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry from the Spanish-American War, displayed in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol.