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Tag Archives: Minnesota
A Revolutionary Opportunity
I received a call last November from a writer with Minnesota Monthly, the magazine Minnesota Public Radio sends to its donors, saying that its editors had been brainstorming an article idea for February’s issue and wanted to include me. The feature was to include a dozen Minnesotans they called “The Revolutionaries” and would involve a [...]
An Aase State of Mind
That’s the headline from this story in today’s Austin Daily Herald about basketball in my hometown, and about our family’s history (and hopefully future) of participating in Minnesota’s state high school basketball tournament. Here’s an excerpt: Austin center Joe Aase knows all about his dad Lee’s history on the basketball court. He knows he went [...]
Posted in Personal Also tagged basketball, Joe Aase, Lee Aase, Rebekah Aase, State Tournament 2 Comments
Web Video 105: Why you should always use a tripod with a Flip
SMUG doesn’t have a formal curriculum in Web video (come to think of it, none of our curriculum is really formal in the accreditation sense.) I guess what I should say is SMUG doesn’t have a curriculum series in Web video. That may change, but for now here is the first post in what might [...]
Posted in Personal, video Also tagged Austin, basketball, camera, Flip, Flip video, tripod, video, Web Video Leave a comment
Christmas Eve Reflections on 2010
It’s 6:30 on Christmas Eve morning as I begin writing this. Why am up early on my first of five days off from work? Because my youngest daughter, Ruthie, needed to get to her nursing assistant job at 7, and we had to get a car free from six inches of new-fallen snow. Part of [...]
Posted in Personal Also tagged basketball, Christmas, Joe Aase, John Aase, Lee Aase, Lisa Aase, Mayo Clinic, Rebekah Aase, Ruthie Aase, SMUG 4 Comments
A Happy Week for the Aase Family