Celebration Generation: Food, Life, Kitties!

A few months ago, Porter and I spread out “enabler” tendencies beyond our house. If you’ve read my tornado book, Twisted: A Minneapolis Tornado Memoir… you may recall my friend Peter the ROCKSTAR. After the tornado, he came to our rescue with landscaper equipment and busted his butt to help us dig out from all [...]

With Hurricane Sandy being all the rage online right now, I’m starting to notice more of what I was seeing after our tornado: that the general public has some bizarre ideas about FEMA. Being just a few days before a major election, also noticing that many politicians either have no idea what FEMA is about, [...]

Just a quick post here today, because today is a BIG DAY here in the Porter House! Remember back when the 100+ year old black walnut tree that we had – that we LOVED – was uprooted and destroyed our house in the tornado? As you may recall, by day # 2 of being Tornado [...]

Today marks the first anniversary of our tornado, here in North Minneapolis. I am completely overwhelmed with my thoughts, so you’ll have to excuse me if this post is all over the place. This is such a weird time of year for us, with all of the focus on the anniversary. Some coverage is negative, [...]