Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n
Kate and I drove 20+ miles to the Edina part of Hopkins, directly across from Blake school’s driveway.\u00a0 This is the home of former State Senator Steve Kelley, also a former candidate for governor.\u00a0 This was a Sierra Club fund-raiser.\u00a0 We listened to speeches, talked to friends, ducked out and then drove past her old home on Highwood Drive in Edina.\u00a0 This part of Edina has lots of mature trees, leafy and atmospheric, homes with long driveways and expensive cars, landscaping that looks natural, yet manicured.\u00a0 Her old home had received a new story, slightly curving windows and wooden garage doors.\u00a0 It was strange to think of her living there, it seems so far from our life here in Andover.<\/p>\n
We enjoyed being out together on a fine summer evening.\u00a0 Cirrus clouds curled and twisted into mare’s tails as the sun set over South Dakota.\u00a0 We crossed the Mississippi on highway 610 and we were back in the northern ‘burbs.<\/p>\n
When I asked Kate why you would send a kid to Blake instead of Breck, she said, “Legacy, maybe.”\u00a0 I thought, demographics and met geography.\u00a0 She added, “Some people get their undies in a bunch if you send your kid to the wrong private school.”\u00a0 It’s hard to be upper class.\u00a0 So many rules.<\/p>\n
Since I have Netflix and it doesn’t cost more to get anything, I watched the first Twilight movie.\u00a0 The guy looks like a schlub to me, shows you what I know it comes to pretty boys.\u00a0 The girl, Kristen Stewart, has charm, but is unconventional in her attractiveness.\u00a0 The plot line weaves teen angst into a bit of supernatural and the favorite theme about vampires since Anne Rice:\u00a0 the misunderstood, empathic vampire.\u00a0 True Blood, the Vampire Diaries, Twilight and even the Gates have the vampire who wants to fit in and be friends with their food.\u00a0 I’m sure ‘ol Vlad is spinning on his home turf inside the coffin.<\/p>\n
The movie as a whole is weak, but since my standards for supernatural fare have a lot of flex, I watched it to the end.\u00a0 Not worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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