Three layers of writing…..getting back to the blog…maybe January 4, 2024 I am about to tell Harbor City School that I will no longer be available for substituting when they have teachers out. I’ve enjoyed… Continue Reading
A Christmas Pageant Duluth Reader column January 2, 2024 One of Claudia Welty’s favorite children’s books You can read it here Continue Reading
Which is the Worst Death? Reader Column January 2, 2024 Visit to the Attic, 1992. Harry Welty’s first and only published book where he predicted that Donald Trump would be the future of the… Continue Reading
monTreal belated Dululth Reader Column January 2, 2024 This is a belatedly posted column here to the blog. It was a bit of a nightmare to compose because it was composed on… Continue Reading
I used to have readers here – I used to post all the time December 31, 2023 Maybe it was devoting 2 hours a day to trying to learn French five years ago that stifled my old habit of writing posts…. 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
Deep State < Deep Pockets < Dark Money November 19, 2023 I woke up dreaming about that and felt I had to immediately write about that. My next thoughts > I don’t have time to… Continue Reading
The Fall of Lincoln – less jumbled than the Reader website November 10, 2023 The Fall of Lincoln 4th in a series on a trip To Washington DC. The stack of 10,000 Lincoln books found across the street… Continue Reading
Latest Reader Column – The Fall of Lincoln November 10, 2023 The stack of 10,000 Lincoln books found across the street from Ford’s Theater. Far below Welty peers up at the photographer. The Column begins:… Continue Reading
Santayana November 10, 2023 For several years I made and occasionally passed out a business card that quoted the philosopher George Santayana on the back side. The quote:… Continue Reading
Republicans (today) do not equal fascists and anyone wanting to fix America needs to understand what they have become. September 12, 2023 First of all they are not just a they. We are all they or parts of they or parts of our they. Liberals can… 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
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
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
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