I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love the solitude. By Minsun Song There is something about riding alone at night that brings out the romantic in me. I often bike home in the late evening, when the world is dark and dimly lit by street lights. The traffic reduces to occasional cars Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter. Today, I love radical acceptance. By Scout Fleckenstein Let go of fighting reality and accept what is. When I moved to Minnesota in 2013, I was scared of winter. I was scared of the cold and the snow and the ice and the wind. I was scared to Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love winter sensations. By Anne Sombor I love how Minnesota winter lets me feel more deeply in my body. Big bicycling drinks of cold air feel like scratching an itch at the very back of my throat. Too cold air, below zero, feels thick when I Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love ritual. By Julia Winkels I was over winter early this year. For the first time I really felt that I suffered from the cold, a menacing force that compounded my anxiety and fatigue. I began to dread leaving the house, whether it was climbing into Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love riding in a snowstorm. By Claire Milldrum This is my first full winter in Minnesota. All my friends from other cold weather states questioned my logic, but as we know, they were very wrong. Minnesota is great in the winter, in that there is both no Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love reading. By Lucy Roberts Today I love Minnesota winter because it gives me the opportunity to spend hours at the library and get my reading game on. I live in Hennepin County, and our library system rules! I could talk about the benefits of libraries Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter. Today, I love popcorn. By Patrick Weber The past few weeks I have been trying to figure out how to sum up my first winter bike season. Popcorn. The smell of it as I heat up my hand warmers in the morning, and get ready to ride out Continue Reading →
I #lovemnwinter! Today, I shamelessly love winter! My past #ilovemnwinter top ten lists highlighted the noblest of ideas (starting a book club, knitting, meditating) while leaving some of the most honest reasons behind. This year, I’m sharing the dregs of those lists, the “not ready for publishing” reasons, the bottom Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love the dark. By Carolyn Szczepanski I’ve always been an early riser. I love the way the world feels at 5 a.m., still slumbering but with the undercurrent of dreams conjuring the hopeful trajectory of what the day will bring. In winter, those pre-dawn hours feel Continue Reading →
I #lovemnwinter! Today, I love difficulty. By Hilary Lovelace Last night, my partner and I got two rather ominous fortune cookies: A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. All things are difficult before they are easy. Biking in winter is a challenge, it takes Continue Reading →
