At the start...well kinda...ya betcha

I've had many blogs in the past. Some successful - some private - some real horrible 2 day blogs. What I'm getting tired of is the stupidity of facebook and twitter and all the reasons we have to mince our words into 160 characters. It sometimes feels like we're losing the english language.


 I thought I'd start this blog mainly to inform my family,spread across states and continents of the ongoings way up north! Don't worry - you don't even have to check it - I'll send you an email with the new posts - so you can follow my journey on becoming Minnesotan.

You are all aware of that little show called "prairie home companion"? Well maybe not all of you, but as a child growing up without a TV the radio was one of our primary forays into modern society. Sketches and stories about people and places that seemed so foreign specifically that place called Lake Wobegon:"the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve ... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

Well then I moved there.

I guess there is something to be said about 'train a child in the way which he should go. even when he is old he will not depart from it'. So here I am. This weekend epitomized the culture of this community.

We attended a program called Out of the Hat. What is it you ask? On Friday night 5 playwrights get together. They pull 5 things out of a hat: 1. An opening line 2. An object 4. A location 5. Actors They have the night to write the script. The next day the actors are assigned plays and they have 1 day to get the show to work. I must say - it was brilliant and extremely funny. It was held at our local Paul Bunyan Playhouse. The space is a 1930s theater with amazing acoustics.

I love old theaters... in fact all historic buildings are never out of style. And so it goes...