Last week, I walked into the Berge to find not the Mary Gillespie I’d been expecting, but rather a man moving large canvases. “Hope you don’t mind me muttering to myself while I do it,” he said. “Now, where should this one go?”
Like many fathers (I presume), my dad has a fair share of stock phrases. The second you bring up going horseback riding, you’re greeted with “Horses are vicious beasts…”
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Friday, May 16th: Open Mic Night with Betsy Pardick at the YES! House 6:30 - 9 p.m.
[This week’s “here” is a venerable art museum; this week’s author is my Creative Nonfiction Workshop student Darren Almgren-Bersie, who agreed to let me publish this very sweet personal narrative. From this and everything else he’s written about his wife Emma, I’m glad the below shook out the way it did – she sounds like a real keeper. Enjoy! Also, if you have your own happening… please do send it my way at Jessie.rose.hennen (at) gmail.com. – Jessie Hennen]
Sometimes, a person gets too excited about the possibilities afforded her by the fairy village moving to a new and much earthier location (the steps leading down to the river next to the Berge Building), spends an otherwise-needed needed afternoon digging out foundations for tiny houses and pressing mosaic tiles into the earth to create paths, and… forgets that her many-page end-of-year professional development report is due sooner than she thinks.
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Thursday, May 8th: An Evening of Generosity Swap with Ifrah Mansour - Craft Your Own Fabric Leaf of Generosity at the YES! House 5:30 p.m.
Much like the weather on the day I’m writing this – gorgeous sun, new buds, and a chance of a tornado -- spring often brings out the unsettled side of Minnesotans. After a long winter, people spot fresh daffodils and get crazed.
I’m not sure when people I know started saying with vigor, “We are so BACK, baby,” but the phrase has stuck. At present, it is reverberating in my head, striking a note of great joy: this Friday (May 2nd), the Bluenose Gopher returns for real.