Another new start on a book January 31, 2020 Trying to figure out just what to write bookwise has been a preocupation of mine for ten years. It keeps getting more urgent. Donald… Continue Reading
Back to the Reader November 8, 2019 Here’s my column in this week’s Reader: On Being a Student Until the Day I Die Continue Reading
General Grant June 18, 2019 At the Quora site on the Internet in which people ask questions and experts show up out of nowhere to answer them I read… Continue Reading
You won’t need to know Italian once you’ve drunk from the . . . June 10, 2019 . . . elixer of love. My gang in a sleepy Tuscan village. Pass the sangiovese. Continue Reading
I’m going to the opera……you could come too June 10, 2019 https://loonopera.org/events/elixer-of-love/ This was a sing through with the orchestra but without all the theatrics. I have a daughter and two grandsons on stage. Can’t… Continue Reading
Memorial Day Remembrance May 27, 2019 At noon I put up our US flag for Memorial Day. I’m not a fanatic about following the rules or it would have gone… Continue Reading
Eudora’s latest – Family Heirlooms May 9, 2019 It begins: “I spent last night polishing a family heirloom to send to my son. It’s was set aside for him years ago before… Continue Reading
Giving minority American soldiers their due April 28, 2019 This is a gratifying news story tying my Grandfather to today’s attempt to rectify old intentional historical oversights. It was something he attempted to… Continue Reading
My Mom’s memories through my Daughter April 4, 2019 (Photo by Tara Elizabeth) Yesterday my younger grandson ruffled my thinning hair and I told him it reminded me of his mother who once… Continue Reading
Glaciers!!! March 5, 2019 I was going to use a different title for this as my previous post suggested. It was to be “Read this you climate denying… Continue Reading
Serious Family News February 18, 2019 To my Eight loyal readers, I have had something on my mind for several weeks which helps explain the paucity of my posts. An… Continue Reading
Harry Welty, “Provocateur” January 3, 2019 Brady Slater’s piece about my Cheeto-in-Chief sculpture and its temporary decapitation was fine by me. However, as a diarrhetically, self analycal writer I would… Continue Reading
Christmas Eve 2018 December 26, 2018 My daughter channeling an angel: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10217950381262061&id=1560676486 Continue Reading
Apparently I do need to say more about Trump’s and Stauber’s World August 14, 2018 Migrant-teens-hooded and restrained Continue Reading
At Hibbing last night June 27, 2018 My computer just died so I am composing this on my cell phone. I hate doing this. I attended a fascinating debate in Hibbing… Continue Reading
An Open Letter to MCCL (and why even the Supreme Court will not end abortions) June 14, 2018 A short note before I share the letter. I was alive when “back alley” abortions took the lives of women. I formed my opinions… Continue Reading
Bringing back Phil to manage my school board campaign June 30, 2017 Alanna Oswald told me yesterday that she might not to vote for me because of all the posts in which I whine about having… Continue Reading
Indian ghosts April 17, 2017 I just keep adding more books to my reading list. The lastest is Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve been catching reports on Public… Continue Reading
life’s lessons February 3, 2017 Yesterday morning my older grandson was giving his younger brother all sorts of grief. I reprimanded him and then showed him yesterday’s “Violet Days”… Continue Reading
