All hail the giant pencil / One Good Thing

A Minneapolis neighborhood really gets the lead out

Midwesterners seem to have their own unique ways of turning lemons into lemonade. I assume this tendency springs in part from enduring long and punishing winters. Summer comes … and you want to go a little haywire.

I was charmed by a wonderful story coming out of Minneapolis this week, where I learned about a festival dedicated to the sharpening of a gia…