Category Archives: Curiosities

No.42: Spring has officially arrived

It’s springtime in Minnesota!  There’s still snow on the ground, but less each day.  And each night the melting snow freezes up, forming ice sheets over shallow ice pools.  The crunch and crackle as you walk over them is tremendously satisfying.  Makes me feel powerful, and gleefully destructive. My favorite flowers appear each spring.  In...

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No.39: Put on your Sunday Clothes…

The Bowtie

Rebranding is complete… for now. If you haven’t yet already (or recently), please visit my wedding photography site – nathankavlieweddings.com – or click on “Weddings” in the menu above.

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No.38: Seven years ago I said goodbye

Trench

Weird perhaps, but I don’t remember my last cigarette.  Since it was January 19 in Ann Arbor and I wasn’t allowed to smoke in my dorm room (Michigan’s law school has a dorm), doubtless it was cold.  And dark – I would have had a last one before bed. I’d quit over Christmas break when...

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No.31: Cory’s fortune cookie

From a recent late-night visit to Chino Latino…

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No.28: May I have a glass of melted ice with some frozen-water cubes?

Cory noticed this offering during our time in D.C. For those of you on the coasts, here in middle-America we refer to “hot cookie dough” as “freshly-baked cookies”.

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No.25: Munchkin Pumpkin

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No.23: State Fair 2010

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is one of the highlights of my year…

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No.21: Contemplative Maggie

I explained to Maggie that even though Justin Bieber is a dog-lover, the Target Center wouldn’t allow his canine fans to attend the concert.

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No.15: Iced Tea with Cory

Cory’s work frequently involves unexpected family counseling sessions which might last one hour, or three, or even longer (when trashcans start flying…). Yesterday I was tooling around town, enjoying the sun and test-driving a new lens.  And Cory answered the phone!   He had time for a quick lunch and I grabbed some iced tea…

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No.12: Keeping tabs on those durn kids…

Maggie’s sort of like that old grannie who lived two houses down and spent her days listening to AM radio and keeping tabs on the neighborhood…

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