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James Miller

Edina, Minnesota
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4 years 14 weeks

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Posted on 05/23/12 at 11:40 am in response to Feeding the poor: But is it healthy food?

My wife & I volunteer 1-2 times/month making & serving Breakfast on Saturdays at Sharing & Caring Hands. The food is generally high quality, with a variety of sources of protein, salads, and not much of the carbs topped w/fat that you'd expect. Yes, there are sweets, and many clients pour on the sugar and salt. But the food's usually a good mix of things; not what I'd expected when I started volunteering there.

Posted on 02/16/12 at 11:10 am in response to Who's for (and against) voter photo ID, and why?

Good article. Please send me or rewrite with the link to the purchasable chapter on Amazon.

Posted on 01/14/12 at 02:31 pm in response to Should I stay or should I go?: The question that plagues Minnesota artists

My daughter, who was raised in SF, went to school and has stayed in Kansas City. She has two main "jobs" in Kansas City: Co-owner of a women's lingerie/swimsuit clothing store and working visual artist (commissioned and exhibited murals, paintings, album covers, and sculpture). KC is somewhat similar to the Twin Cities in size (100K larger). We (her stepmom and I) feel that KC has more local support for visual artists than Mpls. The Walker is generally geared to well-known international...

Posted on 12/30/11 at 11:47 am in response to The 64 best albums I heard in 2011

Many many thanks for turning us on to music which we'd otherwise not heard about!!

Posted on 12/22/11 at 02:47 pm in response to A holiday classic: Pee-wee Herman's Christmas special

In the 80's, when PW's Playhouse was on, I worked as a video editor and would always kibbutz w/work pals about "how he did that" on Monday morning after a show. Not campy? Do you remember Jambi the Genii? High camp!

Posted on 10/16/11 at 12:45 am in response to When a stressed child's body says 'Enough already,' it can be frightening

I read an amazing related article years ago about a group of Laotian women in LA. They had witnessed and survived the Killing Fields of Pol Pot, but were afflicted with "Hysterical Blindness." Illness as metaphor in the extreme.

Posted on 10/17/10 at 08:52 pm in response to Memorable guitar work puts the rif(f) in terrific

Wonderful article, replete w/examples. How about anything by the late John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Posted on 02/10/09 at 04:54 pm in response to Michele Bachmann to talk this morning about stimulus on Fox business web site

To Steven Gray,
Take a look at the 6th District's demographics, in both population and voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_6th_congressional_district).
Michele won last Fall by only 3.6, but remember that 10% of that vote was siphoned to the third party spoiler, Bob Anderson. It's certainly conceivable...