The other day my family and I went for the second time in a month to Chula Vista Mexican Restaurant. (They have coupons, what can I say?!) Besides I love their food. I like their tradition, like many Mexican restaurants, of giving baskets of chips and bowls of salsa. Their chips are great and their salsa terrific. And, every meal the four of us had was yummy.
While we were there, ...
After church yesterday, I came home and got the book I am currently reading, (Norman Mailer's novel based on Adolf Hitler's childhood, The Castle in the Forest) and walked down the Wabasha Street stairs and went to lunch at Boca Chica's. I was too late to take in their Sunday buffet, unfortunately, but I had a super lunch. (half of which I brought home and will eat for lunch today!)
I ...
After Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife and Sheila and two of their children were killed in a plane crash just before 2002 election, the US Congress passed legislation that appropriated money to build a center at the Neighborhood House in the heart of the district where they lived. The Wellstone Center opened in December of 2005. It is a beautiful building on St. Paul's westside, giving the city an ...
Below the bluffs of the Mississippi River on St. Paul's historic west side is one of the City's most interesting historic treasures--The Wabasha Street Caves. Originally merely the clifts and bluffs of sandstone designed by the flow of the Mississippi, then dug out in the late 1800's by miners extracting the fine sand, the Wabasha Street Caves have as much St. Paul history behind them as most any other site in ...
Café Juliahna
Yesterday I met a friend at the Café Juliahna at the corner of Annapolis and Smith Avenue on the west side of St. Paul, right up the hill at the second light on Smith after crossing the "High Bridge" over the Mississippi from the edge of downtown St. Paul.
My friend and I had arranged to meet at the Old Man River Café, but when we arrived where OMRC used ...
Belly Dancing at the Beirut Restaurant in St. Paul
Last Saturday afternoon a former coworker and I met at the Wellstone Community Center (subject of a future post) to spend a couple hours talking about his current, my former, workplace, the people who were still there, the people who had left, and the changes in the work.
We decided we would just sit and chat until our discussion led us to hunger and ...
