Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Month: August 2011

  • Quick and Dirty Grammar Points for the New Semester

    Classes at St. Catherine University begin September 7th. To all my wonderful students (#m2350 etc), here is a quick and dirty list of grammar points that I expect you to know AND apply in ALL your written work for me:  texts, emails, blog entries, Tweets, and papers. Remember this distinction: “e.g.” means “exempli gratia” (“example…

  • UPDATED: A Parent Ramble about Marketing: Raising Money for Africa, Kids, and the Irish Fair

    On Monday, I told Joel Carlson, that I’m not into “mom blogs,” which is true because I don’t write about parenting in this venue. This weekend, however, parenting and marketing intersect. All week at Good Ground Press we spoke about the African famine, what it means to live a Catholic life, and how to market…

  • #MNIrishFair Pub Fare Battle 8-11-11

      Sláinte to Cork’s Irish Pub of St. Paul. They won the Pub Fare Battle at last night’s opening Battle of the Pubs Cookoff at the Irish Fare of Minnesota. Last night on Twitter, I promised to say why they won: Their food was gooood! Braised greens, corned beef, and sausage. They had CHEFS! FIVE…

  • My Twitterview and Love of St. Paul

    Monday, I was Twitterviewed by Joel Carlson – a cool social media strategist here in the Twin Towns. I don’t interview well, but I think Twitter is a better medium then phone for me. I still haven’t figured out how talk with my hands in either media. My point, though, is how much I talked…