Into the rain October 6, 2017 I was surprised to find I had 19648 steps on the pedometer today. I got a late start but kept working until dark and… Continue Reading
21,000 steps and a mulch footnote October 6, 2017 Crud. I just pounded in a couple hundred words and was on a role when my clumsy fingers replaced them all accidentally with nothingness… Continue Reading
19,000 steps October 5, 2017 After noting that I had yet to lit drop yesterday I steeled myself to do just that. I got in four hours (19,000 steps)… Continue Reading
Its sunny again so why am I not out going door to door? October 4, 2017 Because I’m juggling right now. I just came back from the offices of the News Tribune where the Education Reporter had scheduled a half… Continue Reading
Habitat for H2O October 3, 2017 My rain gauge showed just shy of two and a half inches of rain. It was just one more setback to finishing up the… Continue Reading
Google me October 2, 2017 My first print advertisement. It can be found in the Zenith City News. Continue Reading
Rendezvous with Dana October 1, 2017 Yesterday at the Lester Park Rendezvous was a long beautiful day. Dana Krigovorsky and I had set up Alanna Oswald’s canopy the night before… Continue Reading
No Kaboom September 30, 2017 As the work on Fourth Street in front of my house proceeded yesterday morning I walked out to make sure the base of my… Continue Reading
MY FORTY YEARS OF DNT REPORTERS AND EDITORS September 30, 2017 PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO WRITE A FUND RAISING LETTER AND IT BECAME THIS EXTENDED STREAM-OF-THOUGHT… Continue Reading
The DNT tosses my column in the circular file September 29, 2017 The Trib won’t run my column after all. According to Editor Chuck Frederick it was too much like this post from a couple days… Continue Reading
My head is pretty full… September 28, 2017 I need to go door to door to empty it. My eight loyal readers have company. According to my blog’s stats I’m perilously close… Continue Reading
Sunshine! September 27, 2017 IN SHORT: I had a lovely meeting with Sally Trnka. Should we both be elected I have no doubt we will work well together…. Continue Reading
Campaigning in the rain, and a side rant on people who refuse to meet with me – for coffee. September 27, 2017 I didn’t go door to door yesterday. I managed to get some writing done and distribute some of the trading card decks that have… Continue Reading
Another rainy day September 26, 2017 Today is another rainy day that I won’t be passing soggy literature door to door. Neither will I be part of Homecroft School’s “human… Continue Reading
How are Donald Trump and the News Tribune Editors similar? September 26, 2017 In the first case: the US has suffered at least four straight climate crises, the fires out west and Hurricanes pounding Huston, Florida and… Continue Reading
Door to door photo – day 44 and counting down September 24, 2017 I walked under a pine tree as I knocked doors in Piedmont Heights and found it festooned with galls so that it looked like… Continue Reading
PBS’s Vietnam, Episode 4 September 21, 2017 I will write this later. I’m spending my day passing out lit door to door. I’ll just note the jarring sight of a confederate… Continue Reading
Burns, Vietnam 3 September 20, 2017 I had hoped for a short meeting so that I could get to the second airing of the third PBS Vietnam installment. No such… Continue Reading
Thoughts on Episode 2 of Burn’s Vietnam September 19, 2017 This episode covered my first recollections of Vietnam which go back to my move from Kansas to Minnesota. JFK was killed within two months… Continue Reading
21st Ave E to be open Saturday? Monday? September 19, 2017 They are pouring the concrete. Continue Reading
