Related Post “The Generals”, October 1, 2025. (There are several comments.) September 30 – October 1, 2025, seems to potentially be as historically as significant as January 6, 2021. The ultimate outcome is going to depend on the American Citizen, collectively, you, I, everyone else. I’d suggest that you at least take the time to […]
We can’t know how September 30, 2025, will play in the history books years from now, but today is the first day. Pay close attention and get, and stay. in action. My first thoughts this day go back to Union staff days where, on infrequent occasions, we “Union Thugs” were asked to help a local […]
By my count, today is the 250th day since the inauguration of the 47th president Jan. 20, 2025. Months ago, I had a fantasy that maybe it was true he would be dictator for only one day; or that it might be true he really had no idea that there was such a thing as […]
September 4 2025 at this space, I published a post about a new book about over 100 French-Canadian families who settled in what is now Dayton MN, about 25 miles upriver from St. Anthony Falls, bordered on one side by the Mississippi River. The book particularly interested me because a branch of my family tree, […]
In the wake of yet another killing-by-gun at Orem Utah on September 10, 2023, I offer a tribute to a gun by its lover, Dr. Soren Kolstoe. I offer it specifically to encourage conversation among those with different opinions about guns, especially in these violent days. It is brief, and food for thought. The poem […]
10:24 a.m. September 12, 2025: The news conference is over and the apparent killer is in custody. I just read a pretty compelling commentary by Thom Hartmann about the “Both Sides” argument which has already begun to rage. I think it is important was a primer on the issue of rhetoric. Here is the link. […]
Yesterday I got a note that someone I knew had died in mid-July in a neighboring state. He was 87, and apparently had been in failing health for some years. He was a Superintendent of Schools in large school districts in three states, including the one where I was the teacher’s union rep during the […]
I debated whether to title this “The Hangman” or “The Flood”. I reference both below. The ball is in your, and my, court. What happens going forward in our nation is up to each of us, not some “them”. But we have to put into action our concerns wherever we are in this huge and […]
The new 473 page book, Dayton With a French Accent, is very recent, and high quality. Disclosure, I’m one of the volunteer founders of the organization which published the book, though I had retired from active involvement before the project was envisioned and began three years ago. I have no financial interest in the publication. […]
The phrase “hand me downs” comes to mind as I post this. Today is Labor Day. My life, literally, has been Labor. I am a child of two career public school teachers whose career began in the 1920s. For nine years I was a public school teacher myself; then, for 27 years, I represented public […]