The school board’s HL Mencken is retiring September 8, 2016 Loren Martell just called. He is abandoning his coverage of the Duluth School Board. Loren was frustrated that his column this week only made… Continue Reading
Nibbling at my priorities September 5, 2016 In no particular order: A. I got this email from my Buddy and answered it. I won’t include my reply because it points a… Continue Reading
Books for students today and yesterday August 21, 2016 I am off for a week with the grandsons and not planning on taking the computer or blogging. I do intend to check my… Continue Reading
IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS August 13, 2016 In the co-ink-ee-dink department. After devouring a couple chapters of my biography of Wendell Willkie I picked up the Bible so as to stick… Continue Reading
Me, my summer Blog audience and a glimpse at the plethora of stuff brimming over in my head August 12, 2016 My daily audience has shrunk by half this summer. I think there are two primary explanations for this and I have no idea which… Continue Reading
Psalm 10 and Octopus Ink July 29, 2016 In the six months since I’ve returned from Jerusalem I’ve managed to get over half way from Genesis to the last of the minor… Continue Reading
Olive’s Egg June 19, 2016 This is Olive’s Egg. It was an impulse buy I couldn’t resist while we were shepherding our grandson’s around St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo…. Continue Reading
Break for books May 25, 2016 I’ve had a bit of a respite from School Board work for gardening and books the latter of which keeps my mind busy. On… Continue Reading
Blasphemer or Gadfly? May 16, 2016 To quote the beginning of the Sunday Trib’s Editorial: “The blasphemy was uttered by an elected official. Of course elected. Easy political points. Except… Continue Reading
Harry reads Adano April 9, 2016 I love this book. It won a Pulitzer in 1945 the year after it was first published and while the Second World War was… Continue Reading
War and Peace and the Duluth Schools April 7, 2016 I have a modest civic responsibility – to do my best for the ISD 709 schools. When I moved to town in 1974 I… Continue Reading
Good guys and Bad guys in books April 6, 2016 Sandwiched between School board related work I found time to finish reading one book to Claudia and started another. The book finished was yet… Continue Reading
Seven days left to file for the Duluth School Board July 12, 2015 No one is watching the filings for the Duluth School Board more closely than I am. Some will no doubt be watching with an… Continue Reading
Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down July 9, 2015 Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today’s… Continue Reading
When all else fails – write about books May 29, 2015 I’ve had five or six posts in mind each of the last several days. Instead of post them I’ve spent time with Claudia working… Continue Reading
Beyond Patience February 28, 2015 That title is meant to be a joke. Hooray! I’ve got my computer back. Think of it as my Thor’s Hammer. I can almost… Continue Reading
What I read and watch February 13, 2015 I’m not sure why my Buddy sent me to this page on Nora Robert’s recreational reading. She’s an author whose pseudonym I’ve run across… Continue Reading
Tonight’s School Board Homework November 4, 2014 I would grudgingly watch tonight’s election results as the people of the United State’s send more “blame everything on Obama” congressmen to the Nation’s… Continue Reading
Mr. U’s Worm Juice October 29, 2014 Somehow my early morning pre-standing thoughts jumped from William Styron’s suicide to the miracle of putting the first Chester Park Elementary School Carnival together…. Continue Reading
Where to begin? October 29, 2014 Not with that by now ripe and ancient and unedited series………. I know I promised to do it. It was more of a promise… Continue Reading