The Bob Dole Singers December 18, 2021 A hint at next week’s Not Eudora column. They were not intended for political commentary. Originally! Continue Reading
Building my snow sculpture during a Tornado warning December 16, 2021 Bob Dole’s ghost swept across his hometown last night with 100 MPH winds. Its climate change in Russel Kansas which saw its wind records… Continue Reading
My lovely birthday weekend December 12, 2021 Turn 71 on a friday and just maybe the first weekend of your eighth decade will be a nice one. Mine was. Here is… Continue Reading
My today’s Reader column was a couple hundred words longer than usual December 10, 2021 Stoning the Premier Danseur. In the Summer of 1971, just shy of 21, I moved to Washington D.C. to work as an intern for… Continue Reading
Two days of Subbing December 10, 2021 Its Friday and I was invited to sub today but declined. Tuesday and Wednesday were both eight hour days. I managed well enough and… Continue Reading
First snow sculpture of my eighth decade December 10, 2021 I’m often asked what my next sculpture will be and I often explain that it will be “snow.” (Its helpful to have canned answers… Continue Reading
Birthday boy tells all December 10, 2021 Day…..Number of visits….. Pages…..Hits…..Bandwidth 01 Dec 2021….. 660….. 4,243….. 4,478….. 45.72 MB 02 Dec 2021….. 860….. 6,396….. 6,675….. 46.56 MB 03 Dec 2021….. 879…….. Continue Reading
Harry’s Nap December 6, 2021 This was a letter from my Mother in the same year as the letter in the previous post. I had asked Mom to illustrate… Continue Reading
No one is harder on me… December 6, 2021 …than me. I have a two day subbing gig tomorrow and Wednesday. This time it will be with middle schoolers. For the past twenty… Continue Reading
The First Draft of History December 4, 2021 I found this a few years back when I wondered if old issues of the Reporter, Mankato State’s Student Newspaper, could be found online…. Continue Reading
A book on my Radar December 4, 2021 This book just got delivered to our house. Thanks Claudia. Much of it is based on the private daily notes of one of American’s… Continue Reading
Truth in Advertizing December 4, 2021 I have spent the better part of the last month in overdrive organizing 50 years worth of family and personal documents. It has been… Continue Reading
Union Organizing December 4, 2021 I’ll blame myself for the Reader not displaying this column quite the way I would have wanted. But for those reading it here I’d… Continue Reading
Back before the NRA put side arms on the hips of every self styled Kyle Rittenhouse November 24, 2021 This was a cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1958 when I was about the same age as the runaway in Norman Rockwell’s… Continue Reading
One of my book projects November 24, 2021 Over the past twenty years I have had a half dozen ideas for writing about the deplorable black history in America that, fortunately for… Continue Reading
My son lines up for a vaccination story 33 years ago November 23, 2021 Discovered tonight as I continue to organize my old Archives. He’s second in line. Continue Reading
The Uighur games November 22, 2021 I’m angry that China is doing to a million Uighurs what the Americans did to Native Americans……try to obliterate their customs and languages in… Continue Reading
Breaking news trumps Harry’s secrecy over his next column November 22, 2021 I rarely if ever steal the Duluth Reader’s thunder by putting my columns online before they appear a week later in print but I’m… Continue Reading
The current column in the Reader November 20, 2021 The poor old Duluth Reader is having trouble keeping its online version up with its paper version so I can no longer guarantee a… Continue Reading
Prattling on – First day as a sub November 20, 2021 I told some of the five classes I “taught” yesterday at Harbor City International that I hadn’t subbed in a class since 1983. That… Continue Reading
