I’m fine

date: Apr 16, 2007 12:45 PM Dear Friends and Family,I just wanted to let you know that I’m ok and safe. I’m at a friends house and will not emerge for a while. Cell phone service is very spotty today because of the high winds and because I’m sure...
blotting your eyes and crossing your skis

blotting your eyes and crossing your skis

As someone who once broke her arm while standing on a rope that was lying on the ground, I have been witnessed as saying on more than one occasion that I would never put myself on two skinny boards that go down a large, snowy hill. I’ve always felt that my...
meeting the man

meeting the man

Ok, so I know you’ve all been waiting on pins and needles all weekend long. Let us all just acknowledge the disappointment and heartbreak up front that I did not get to have my call out read on the air. Ok, disappointment over. Because, except for that, it was a...
coming to an NPR station near you…

coming to an NPR station near you…

One of the things that I knew that I was going to love about coming to Minnesota before I ever got here was that I was going to be living in the land of good NPR. This is the place from which so many great shows are proliferated. And, you know I don’t mean...
cool funk

cool funk

I just have to share some pictures of the building where I work. Every year, during the summit that I’m here to work for, girls from all over the world repaint the outside of the building. Also, I just love this giant bike guy who greets me in the parking lot...

scenes from an internship

maybe a new one-woman show? who knows…imagine a dark stage with a desk under one light shining down and me sitting at it when a disembodied voice speaks:[voice of executive director] Oh, by the way, I know we haven’t gotten a chance to interact much, but in case...