I relocated to these barren wastes in April ’01, and spent my first year searching—mostly in vain—for anything remotely stimulating, or even interesting. Imagine my delight when, on my first anniversary, I stumbled across your magazine. (And imagine my disappointment when the very next issue featured that lame “Top 50” list [“Our Brightest Stars,” June]. Almost all of your “also-rans” were far more worthy.) I now look forward eagerly to each issue as my respite from this Minnesota bland. Your back page columnists—Kruse, Collins, and Ouellette—are particularly erudite and thought-provoking. It is a great consolation to know that, even though God may have forsaken this land [Good Intentions, October], good, intelligent writing has not.
—Eugene Dillenburg
St. Paul
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