Graduation Ceremony – Harry’s Diary May 8, 2017 Claudia and I left early Saturday for the Twin Cities with our grandsons. The occasion was the following day’s graduation ceremony for the United… Continue Reading
I once played a bit part on Jimmy Kimmel’s show… May 3, 2017 …which I only recalled late last night. It was back in 2004. This mention of the occasion in the News Tribune was published two… Continue Reading
A little “flight” reading – The Sage of Emporia May 1, 2017 For years I’ve wondered if William Allen White “the Sage of Emporia” ever wrote anything about his fellow Kansan, my Grandfather George Robb. Although… Continue Reading
Thank you’s April 25, 2017 Years ago I attended some session during which a presenter made a good suggestion. She warned her listeners that it was easy to get… Continue Reading
Darwin, Einstein, Archimedes… April 22, 2017 …Save the Earth and eat your wheaties! That was my chant at today’s Duluth Earth Day/Science day march. I only shouted it once but… Continue Reading
Beezus and the code talkers April 14, 2017 Beverly Cleary was six days shy of turning one year’s old when the United States Congress voted to go to war against Germany and… Continue Reading
singing with positivitity April 8, 2017 Loren Martell has once again covered our latest School Board meeting in the Reader. I make a couple of his paragraphs: Mr. Welty referenced… Continue Reading
Principles before Principals – The rush to war April 8, 2017 I’m two days late mentioning the centenary of America’s entry into World War 1. For the next 20 or so months I’ll be reminding… Continue Reading
Chinese Bibliophiles April 3, 2017 Again. A weekend with plenty of thinking and very little posting. Actually on Friday I spent a couple hours writing in an attempt to… Continue Reading
The Rape of Nanking March 28, 2017 WDIO’s reporter, Julie Kruse, called me as I was adding another two books to “my reading list.” More on the books momentarily. Today’s ongoing… Continue Reading
Full jaw X-ray March 27, 2017 I took a picture of this after my jaw X-ray this morning and then Dr. Spoelhof told me she’d be happy to send the… Continue Reading
Yesterday in threadbare detail March 26, 2017 Yesterday I finished a couple more chapters in my 1920 book, did my Sing thing and then attended the Clayton Jackson McGhie Dinner at… Continue Reading
Ideas when they are like mosquitoes March 24, 2017 I’ve been spilling my thoughts out the past couple days with the same sort of orderliness one slaps oneself while standing in a swarm… Continue Reading
Paranoia Pt 1 March 21, 2017 ……………………………Pages………Hits………Bandwidth ph Philippines ph…… 13,847.. 14,925…. 296.13 MB us United States us… 6,761…. 12,671….. 436.29 MB cn China cn…………….. 2,858….. 2,872….. 13.08 MB Looking… Continue Reading
Flint – lost and found March 14, 2017 A few weeks ago I gave my youngest grandson a small box of arrowheads for show and tell. Five were black flint found near… Continue Reading
“Best of Enemies” – Still a good movie 55 years on March 13, 2017 I have mentioned the old David Niven flick Best of Enemies half a dozen times now in the blog. It is not to be… Continue Reading
Getting to Maybe, a lunch-time anecdote March 8, 2017 One of my favorite people was Jean Gornik. She ran the Damiano Center and I blame/give credit to her for starting me singing in… Continue Reading
“I am on a data privacy kick” March 8, 2017 My Buddy twitted (as opposed to tweeted) me with this response to my third paragraph in the last post: “9AM [meeting] was strictly personal… Continue Reading
Foresight, what might have been, and temper tantrums March 3, 2017 I slaved off-and-on from 5 AM until midnight yesterday to whittle nonsense riddled old posts from 700 offenders to about 80 left today. It’s… Continue Reading
The Good Donald Trump March 1, 2017 I had every intention of watching President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress last evening. Instead, I got Trumped by the… Continue Reading
