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

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  • Minnesota Blogger Conference – Join Me!

    If you’re reading this, then you know something about blogs. Would you like to know more? Then attend the Minnesota Blogger Conference on September 22nd — it’s free, but tickets go fast! Click here on August 22nd to catch one of the first wave of tickets. Why attend? The conference features speakers who write, photograph,…

  • Beauty Ethics and The Hunger Games

    As dark and disturbing as The Hunger Games books are, they provide some fantastic discussion topics. One of my favorite scenes from the books is when Katniss relishes the hair growing back on her legs. I hadn’t much considered the cost of my own beauty routines until read Beauty Ethics and The Hunger Games written…

  • Permeable Parking Lot made with Pervious Percoa

    Can you imagine a concrete Rice Krispy bar? Then you’ve got a good idea of what water permeable concrete looks like. Percoa is an innovative, local company concerned with storm water management. Vice President K.T. Berhagen is a St. Kate’s graduate and one of my former students. I am so impressed with this technology that…

  • Awesome Student Writing: Best Buy– Where You Can Exchange Stuff or Change the World

    My integrated marketing communications students write amazing blogs about advertising, communications, social media, and our local business landscape. Below is a stunning excerpt analyzing a series of videos from our local company, Best Buy. Enjoy. Post #4: Best Buy– Where You Can Exchange Stuff or Change the World. My overall impression of this commercial was…

  • Figs and Photography

    When I lived in North Carolina, I bought two tiny fig trees at the Carrboro Farmer’s Market. Like most things in that part of the world, my fig trees grew prodigiously in only a couple of years. When I left a couple of years ago, my fig trees were laden with hundreds of small, hard,…

  • My Swimming Pool Talks to Me

    Figuratively at least. The City of St. Paul opened a stunning new pool two weeks ago to delighted kids and long check in lines. The new Como Park Pool squeezes in more fun per square yard than any pool I’ve ever visited. But this is a marketing blog, not a lazy river, zip line, water…

  • My Favorite St. Paul City Videos

    Thank you, dear government of St. Paul for entertaining and educating me tonight on YouTube. Some of my favorites: We have hundreds of pizza shops because I think we all secretly want to be Italian (or Irish). http://youtu.be/F3ZOYWCmU9o Remember this is Minnesota. We wear shorts when it’s 40 degrees and we’ll come if you provide…

  • Summer 2012 Classes at St. Kate’s: Interactive Marketing, Social Media and IMC

    No Minnesotan’s summer is ever bland. We have three short months to cram in as much outdoor warm-weather living as we can. This summer, I’ll be on the water, in the classroom, on the mat (yoga), and field-side cheering for at least four different sports teams. Thankfully I’m only coaching one of them! I’m grateful…

  • Quack! Swimming in St. Paul’s Food Truck Pond (I love Potter’s Duck Rolls)

    My darling husband and I have a weekly lunch date, almost always in St. Paul. We gravitate towards spicy Asian offerings on University, but we were downtown this morning, so we hit the food trucks. That was of course after we finally found an ATM. Apparently no one walks downtown on the sidewalks because the…

  • The Minnesota TweetUp for Earth Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota

    I spent this great, rainy Saturday at the Science Museum of Minnesota because I tweet. Really, I think that’s the real reason I was invited. Me, a bunch of science folks and other interesting people like economics writer, Erik Hare and musician and nerd (not necessarily in that order), Jeremy Messersmith. I watched 1.5 cubic…