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Hate for Instagram breeds…appreciation?

I posted recently to Grainery, the sorta new photo-sharing platform, for the first time in a long while. I opened the account about seven months ago as I, along with many Instagram users, had grudgingly… 

Noma closure = reality (finally) accepted

When the news broke Monday that Noma, the Michelin three-star restaurant and repeatedly listed as “Best In The World” was closing its doors at arguably the height of its powers, I shrugged. As someone who started reporting… 

Ukraine inspires, and we need that.

Writing about one’s efforts fiddling with aging cameras and the film that goes in ‘em seems like a trivial exercise lately. Here in the US within the last month, we’ve had two mass shootings—both committed… 

Welcome to the neighborhood!

This is Kevin. The family and I met him while out walking during the late-morning hours of the last Monday in April (yeah—time has warped even more since then). A man rode by on his bike… 

Managing the ‘distance’ in learning

On Thursday, April 23, as we wrapped the third week of “distance learning” in our house, Gov. Tim Walz announced that schools would be closed for the remainder of the school year. That was a… 

The Mondrian Racer

This is Don. While I was out for a walk with my wife and daughter last week, we saw this vehicle parked at the side door of a house we were passing. It was something… 

Essential service, essential people

This is Shelby. She cheerfully rang me through at Mississippi Market this past Tuesday. She is one of the “essential” workers (along with the others at the market I saw that day stocking shelves, helping… 

Amid snow, summer reflections

The first blizzard of the season rolled in after Thanksgiving. It wasn’t a “doozy” (the technical term for “big,” I believe), it was one of those that unravel slowly in temperatures that hover around freezing:… 

The Uncomfortable Embrace

Social media is not going away (duh), and to succeed, businesses need to embrace it (again, duh). But it doesn’t have infect your life (much). “Facebook is the Internet for a lot of people,” said… 

The Labor of Lobster

The price of lobster has dropped, but the cost to catch and process them it has not.  Note: A version of this story was first published in Foodservice News in February 2013, thus explaining some…