Prairie Uprising Essays

  It is 80 miles as the crow flies, or Google maps, from my home in Austin to Winona on the banks of the Mississippi.  Customarily, I travel...

There's no one to root for in Lewis Milestone's 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.  Four profoundly damaged characters interact ...

  1. My daughter, Angelica, wanted to see the House on the Rock, a tourist attraction near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. So we went there. 2. Many ...

  I was 24 when I got my first place.  Before that time, I lived with my parents in a comfortable suburb west of Minneapolis.  I commuted to...