The “Rich men north of Richmond” Debate September 3, 2023 Five months ago stymied by my inability to concentrate on finishing a column by a pushed up deadline of Friday I cranked out my… Continue Reading
Little Miracles add up August 31, 2023 Miracle One Not really much of a miracle but it shows the continuation of my progress toward wherever I’m going. The post-it notes on… Continue Reading
a tid bit I doubt but which has me thinking August 30, 2023 Claudia reads her own set of books when I’m not reading to her in the car or in the living room. This one had… Continue Reading
Trump’s hair challenged predecessor August 30, 2023 Word is out from critic Bolton that Trump spends his first hour and a half of the day having cosmeticians build his thinning hair… Continue Reading
Morning reading, coffee, writing August 30, 2023 “morning newspaper reading” That’s what I just typed into my blog’s search function. I was, am, sure that I have often written about my… Continue Reading
Alanna August 26, 2023 This Saturday morning I used Wait, Wait, Don’t tell me on PBS as background noise while I prepared a flyer for Alanna Oswald’s school… Continue Reading
Back to the Reader August 26, 2023 I’ve had the summer off from composing columns for the Duluth Reader. I spent the spring and summer doing housekeeping that writing regularly made… Continue Reading
22 pages of notes…. August 24, 2023 On the Fox 2024 Republican Presidential Debate sans the frontrunner. I almost finished off a yellow legal pad taking notes on this curiosity. I… Continue Reading
Putin can still get away with a Fifth Avenue August 23, 2023 Link here: https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-a7859e4e57f2efa2547dfbe5bdbaa1b2 Continue Reading
4 Books on HHH plus college admissions June 30, 2023 I started a stalled Reader column for the fourth or fifth time since I stopped submitting them a few months ago. It was about… Continue Reading
That fifth book while Russia faces another revolution and heat waves ravage Texas, and the North Atlantic June 24, 2023 A second day with an unedited blog post. I guess it shows how desperate I am to end a long period of silence even… Continue Reading
Drowning in Books June 23, 2023 Not only have I ignored writing my columns for the Reader I have only rarely and half heartedly attempted to write anything in this… Continue Reading
What’s a writer to do? May 22, 2023 I finally had a wonderful night’s sleep after three days of passable sleep. I woke from a odd dream where I was trying to… Continue Reading
A digression about the picture in the previous post May 19, 2023 Like many far east Asians I have something of a shrine to my Father in my office. Its one of two small display cases… Continue Reading
Thinking about my dad a dictation from a crowded mind that didn’t want to forget anything before starting his day writing after a three month dearth of writing. May 19, 2023 Why I am putting the following gibberish in my blog? As the title says I have not written much for several months. I am… Continue Reading
Condemned to repeat it May 3, 2023 If you are historically, philosophically or Double Jeopardly enough you will recognize the end of the end of my favorite phrase about the study… Continue Reading
How the heirs of the KKK stole a Pope’s infallibly to divide and conquer America April 24, 2023 JFK addresses anti-Catholic preachers in 1960, Google:“The Kennedy Speech that Stoked the Rise of the Christian Right” Read it here Continue Reading
Maybe this is the start of my next Reader Column April 20, 2023 I have only rarely taken posts for the blog and turned them into Reader Columns. Today my be an exception but only if I… Continue Reading
The Reader Redux April 18, 2023 I sent the Reader a second old column to reprise. It was renamed the Aborted Girl Redux. Only the preface is new. It was… Continue Reading
Looking for some traction in resuming my writing which has been on hiatus since I missed a Reader deadline six weeks ago. March 23, 2023 As a Lincoln liberal I don’t have any arguments with liberals. I do have some quibbles with the self righteous who cloak themselves in… Continue Reading
