I didn’t know I would be making jam at 3-o-clock in the morning, but there I was. I was 26 years old. I had just moved out of my family’s home and was living alone for the very first time. I had found a studio apartment in Miami with bright yellow walls that reminded me […]
When I looked at the Star Tribune homepage, I was stunned. A picture of a place far away that I knew so well was the top story. It was September 2, 2019 and Hurricane Dorian had just battered the Bahamas. Some Midwest grandparents retire to Arizona or snowbird in Florida. My grandparents took a vacation […]
Image credit: GOES satellite image provided by NASA. Hurricane Sandy churns off the East Coast on Monday morning, Oct. 29, 2012. “Our climate is changing and while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of it, the risk that […]