Christmas by George December 18, 2021 It begins: When I was in fourth grade my Mom offered to help my teacher, Mrs. Knight, teach my classmates how to make puppets… Continue Reading
Harry’s Nap December 6, 2021 This was a letter from my Mother in the same year as the letter in the previous post. I had asked Mom to illustrate… Continue Reading
No one is harder on me… December 6, 2021 …than me. I have a two day subbing gig tomorrow and Wednesday. This time it will be with middle schoolers. For the past twenty… Continue Reading
Union Organizing December 4, 2021 I’ll blame myself for the Reader not displaying this column quite the way I would have wanted. But for those reading it here I’d… Continue Reading
The current column in the Reader November 20, 2021 The poor old Duluth Reader is having trouble keeping its online version up with its paper version so I can no longer guarantee a… Continue Reading
“Seeing Red,” My long misarchived column found November 17, 2021 My archiving work keeps turning up lost or misplaced items. One such last night was the letter my Grandfather wrote to my mother after… Continue Reading
A personal history… November 13, 2021 ordered by family at a Welty Family reunion in the 1990’s. One of the discoveries in organizing and collating family mementos over the past… Continue Reading
Vive la France….From this week’s Reader November 12, 2021 The Reader online is now separate from the Reader at the newsstands. Consequently, sometimes my columns don’t get published online for me to link… Continue Reading
Blogging as a distraction November 12, 2021 For most of my blog’s history I have blogged up a storm. It started with posts in 2006 that can be accessed easily by… Continue Reading
Bold Journeys November 6, 2021 I should have linked to this column a week ago. Better late than never. It begins: “I have been everywhere in the United States… Continue Reading
Rocamadour November 6, 2021 I made the umpardonable mistake of describing Rocomodour, France as Sarlat, France in my most recent Reader Column. Its not in the Online Reader… Continue Reading
I pay attention…..1998 and a little extra (It might make you smile) September 20, 2021 4-20-98 Dear When one in five Duluth teachers writes and tells me to pay attention, I pay attention. I wrote personal letters to the… Continue Reading
A Most chilling cartoon because it is spot on September 13, 2021 All Trump supporters have, without any intelligent people to speak for them is an allegiance to the lies that they pass off as “owning… Continue Reading
Heidi O’Bromowitz September 3, 2021 My latest Not Eudora column for the Reader: Heidi O’Bromowitz, AKA Harry’s little sister It begins: While I wallowed in self pity as the… Continue Reading
Dr. Seuss Goes to War August 30, 2021 I was once asked about my snow sculpting and explained that I always wanted to be a cartoonist. I just found the collection of… Continue Reading
une meme examan August 27, 2021 I spent twenty minutes this morning picking up the old cups, cans and bottles from my neighbor’s party “welcoming” students back to UMD. I… Continue Reading
Hitting My Stride August 25, 2021 Two days ago I posted a letter I’d sent to Superintendent Myles back in 1997. Today I’m posting page 89 of the book I… Continue Reading
Historian of the School Board August 23, 2021 I sent in my seventh consecutive weekly column to the Reader over the weekend. It was cobbled together from about six previous stabs at… Continue Reading
post script Column 3 “Seeing is Believing” July 17, 2021 Tucker Carlson doesn’t really belong in the story of my education but his craven Foxian disinformation gave me a chance to leak a little… Continue Reading