Sara Kerr
Musings
Tag: Creative Kidstuff
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Friday afternoon — Black Friday — I met my brother at the Home Depot in St. Louis Park. My son had spent the night with his cousin and it was time to fetch him. St. Louis Park happens to be equidistant from our homes. Earlier that morning, my daughter, my other son, and I went…
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People Just Need a Reason to Go Out, to Buy, to Visit, to Shop: That’s my theory of local retail and dining. Here’s where it’s worked for me (and Minneapolis/St. Paul businesses) in 2010. Groveland Tap’s “Save the Nook Saturday” – Backstory: the venerable Nook burger shop on Hamline Avenue was gutted by fire on…
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One of my family’s favorite local activities is the annual meander along Grand Avenue in St. Paul — sipping hot cocoa, visiting reindeer and getting a start on holiday shopping. As charming as Chapel Hill, North Carolina was, it just didn’t boast a shopping district as energetic and unique as Grand Avenue in St. Paul.…