Now for some fun March 2, 2024 If I can write I can scare Pete the pocket lint Stauber. Maybe I can beat him. I left college in 1974 thinking the… Continue Reading
Higgledy Piggledy book February 24, 2024 I am recovering from reducing 4000 words yesterday to 900 for my Reader column next week. I will only be certain if I’m satisfied… Continue Reading
Marketing a Welty Campaign January 31, 2024 The last post so pleased me I thought it might work as a booklet. So I lifted the text and screen shots of the… Continue Reading
Looking back on my Reader Columns as I put a book together January 28, 2024 NOTE This comes from 10:30 PM – I have been organizing materials all day and I just discovered a trove of documentation I’d forgotten… Continue Reading
Getting ready to campaign with a book January 24, 2024 Long time readers know I have a penchant for talking about all the books I want to write and or take old columns and… Continue Reading
Oliphant January 23, 2024 I buy books of my favorite cartoonists on occasion and I found this one years ago of Pat Oliphant’s work. He was my favorite… Continue Reading
After the Cranberry Vermin debate Pt 2 November 22, 2023 I’ve started a post it note wall for the Vermin debate. That’s all I’ll say for now. The cranberry making put it in the… Continue Reading
Before the Vermin Debates Pt 1 November 20, 2023 I’ve been hell bent on straightening out America’s Gordian knot since I first separated from the Republican Party in 1992 and ran as what… Continue Reading
Books besides Krakeur’s – liberal republicans November 19, 2023 I’ve called myself more than a “bad republican” as reported in my last Reader Article I’ve also called myself a liberal republican or a… 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
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
Two more Reader Columns January 15, 2023 Three Books It begins: It’s a good year when I read 10 books – histories mostly. Much to my wife’s chagrin I buy real… Continue Reading
Grim and Bear it. November 8, 2022 We walked over to the UCC church a few blocks away to cast our votes this morning and were joined by neighbors heading the… Continue Reading
Two Bibles and more October 15, 2022 After my foray into Native American history I am going to change course. Claudia is now reading Black Elk Speaks and we were chatting… Continue Reading
History’s Sausages October 15, 2022 Carl von Clausewitz My French pen pal really liked this column which begins: “A couple decades ago when Duluth was about to disinter the… Continue Reading
Techumseh October 6, 2022 Having finished my second book on native american history in the last month I’m starting two new books. I’ll start Peter Cozzens book Techumseh… Continue Reading
From the Pottawattamie death trail to the 1966 trail of destruction in Topeka, Kansas October 5, 2022 I’ve finished my third book this month about the expulsion of Indians. It was based on a bill that only passed with a margin… Continue Reading
From expulsion to Extermination September 23, 2022 The densely fact filled Unworthy Republic by Claudio Saunt has been waiting for me for a year or so. I had read 40 pages… Continue Reading
