We went to our subscription season opener on Saturday evening, and it was, as always, a delightful experience. Andrew Litton conducted a program of Richard Strauss: Don Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character; Salome’s Dance (Dance of the Seven Veils); Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. It was a marvelous, fun program. Through the […]
Personal suggestion: Know all of the candidates who are on your ballot for the November 4 election, and what they stand for, then vote your choices. For Minnesotans, the Minnesota election weblink is here. I would suspect that each state’s Secretary of State has a similar page. * Yesterday afternoon I noted a man wearing […]
NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: An earlier version of this post has been updated below,including more content, links and photographs. This post was picked up by Twin Cities on-line newspaper MinnPost on Oct. 1, and can be read here. After publishing this blog, I received a note from the coordinator for North Dakota Studies at the State […]
There is a great deal to be said about Election 2014, now only five weeks away. The succinct message: The vast majority of Americans over 18 years of age are qualified to vote. Regardless of roadblocks thrown up to keep some away from the polls, few Americans are excluded from the right to vote. Unfortunately, […]
NOTE October 8, 2014: This post will likely continue to be preceded by DRAFT. My apologies to Prof. Beeman if I missed his point(s). The very interesting additional opinions (below) are as expressed (interpreted) by the writers, including myself. Last night (Sep 18, 2014) I was one of about 35 persons who had a great […]
In May, at the annual dinner of the Anoka-Hennepin Education Minnesota, teacher Suzanne Quinn-McDonald received an award for outstanding service. During her brief remarks she quoted something Eleanor Roosevelt had once said, something I’d not heard: “Do one thing every day that scares you.” I went home and looked up the quote, and indeed it […]
Today, September 17, is Constitution Day in the United States. This year the U.S. is 227 years young. Happy Birthday! Some serendipity happenings cause me to give focus, this day, to the original Constitution of the State of North Dakota. North Dakota is my home state. This year, November 2, is the 125th birthday of […]
The two ladies saw me coming, and knew what to expect. I had come armed, with my camera. My target; (click to enlarge) Several successive Saturday mornings I’d seen this pooch in a stroller. Fourteen years of walking in this park, and I hadn’t seen a pooch so royally treated. This was a dog who […]
It’s been a rough week for the National Football League (NFL). First comes the indefinite suspension of Baltimore Ravens Ray Rice after the violent incident with his “then-fiancee” in a hotel elevator. Then, this mornings banner headline in my local paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, about Minnesota Vikings star “Adrian Peterson Indicted” for disciplining “his […]
Yesterdays post, here, relates to this one. Recently, in an e-mail, came a very interesting short test on current events* from the highly respected Pew Research Center. It asks 13 questions: “What do you know about the news?”. You can take the test privately. Here it is. Elsewhere in this post I will tell you […]