Ride Of A Lifetime

Those of us with young children will appreciate this video from Fatty at fatcyclist.com.
I made my kids ride on their own when they were small – refusing the trail-a-bike method for fear they would be lazy and refuse to let go of their training wheels. After seeing this video, however, I wish I’d given them [...]

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Top Five

This old blog is coming up on two years in the blogosphere – that’s eight years in Internet time according to my e-marketing friends.
In these most recent 24 months, several blog posts have risen to the top as “most popular or frequented,” at the Land of 10,000 Perspectives. While they aren’t necessarily my favorites, I’m [...]

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Up and Coming and Riding

I’m up.
My head thinks it still wants a pillow, but the rest of me says otherwise. After a very impromptu Friday evening that included a bike ride, and a tasty little dinner with an old friend, I’m up early on a Saturday (nothing unusual for me). I relish the early morning “quiet” hours, and this [...]

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Nature Valley Grand Prix Launches Informative Blogs

For avid and rec cyclists, there’s no shortage of information available in the blogosphere.
One of the more popular stage races in the country, the Nature Valley Grand Prix, has launched a couple of very informative blogs designed to clue in readers about how to improve their own cycling abilities as well as a blog written [...]

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Now I’m Found

It’s kinda’ creepy, actually. Thanks to The Google, there are all sorts of people in the world searching for specific answers and information about their most haunting questions. Well, okay, some are perhaps the random thoughts of idiots, but that’s fine, too.
Here are some search terms and phrases that brought people to Views from Minnesota [...]

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Other Thinking Bloggers

Srkenney, owner of, The World: Ever Changing, blog recently provided me with my first-ever blog award of any kind: The Thinking Bloggers award. I’m so honored.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to five blogs that make you think.
2. Link to the post where you [...]

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Don’t Like It, Change It

On Colleen Wainwright’s blog, aptly called The Communicatrix, she has once again written a fantastic post. This time it’s on the nuances of change – and how we think things should be in our lives vs. how they really are. Again, better words couldn’t be written to describe this place we all find ourselves in…and [...]

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Many Stories Still To Come

In a stunning discovery, daily page views at “Views from Minnesota” jumped a whopping 62 percent in the past 10 days! For all intents and purposes, I have no clue why the dramatic increase. I haven’t added new sites on the blogroll. I didn’t change my writing style. I didn’t add any deep, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving Day

To my readers:
Happy Thanksgiving Day, everyone (a wee bit early)!
I know most of you don’t leave comments and I’m cool with that. I’m just happy to have the regs stopping by and enjoying the posts that bring life to “Views from Minnesota.” The past couple days have been some of the “most visited” days recorded [...]

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Blog Action Day – Oct. 15, 2007

What would happen if every blog published posts on the same topic, on the same day? October 15 is Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is the environment.If you have a blog and want to join in, all you have to do is use that day to post something related to the environment, [...]

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