A friend just wrote an excellent book, and in it a town was mentioned, Montrose SD, just 20 miles from Sioux Falls. Since I was going to Sioux Falls anyway, I decided to pop in on Montrose, just to see what it was like. It was a bit like going back to the old days. […]
… the United States will wake up to the residue of the 2012 election. There will be campaign offices in disarray, activists everywhere with hangovers, either the euphoria of victory or the depression of defeat, victors, vanquished. Election 2012, America’s biennial Civil War, will be over…for a few hours, then election 2014 will begin. We […]
Today is National Teacher Day, a day with a long tradition. Since 1985 the first Tuesday in May has been the specific day, but the tradition goes back to an idea of a teacher in the 1940s. More so than in any recent years, Teacher Appreciation Day is an essential one this year. Especially since […]
I had a dream overnight – this is literally true – of living in what seemed to be a somewhat primitive society somewhere where people, whether ordinary or high and mighty, had identical rights to have good ideas and actually possessed the possibility of having these ideas considered without threat of ridicule or worse. The […]
Today, all day, I was 72 years old. I got a head start on a great day on May 3 with a short trip across the Mississippi to Lincoln Center School in South St. Paul MN. There granddaughter Addie (she’s the one in the black and white polka dot dress you can see if you […]
On Tuesday evening CBS News a segment played about five anarchists who had been arrested in a plot to blow up a bridge in Ohio. There was a good visual of the bridge, and not much information about the anarchists, except that they were from the midwest. The terrorist act was apparently to be an […]
My friend, Lynn Elling, founder of World Citizen, is fond of a particular quotation of Gandhi: “If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” I kept thinking of that phrase, and looking at […]
Back on April 1, my daughter Joni sent me an iPhone photo of her sister (and my daughter) Heather. (click on photos to enlarge) Yesterday Heather and I went bowling. We did two lines. She got a strike on her first frame. She won the first line, I won the second. No need to do […]
Saturday morning a few of us were waiting in line at the Woodbury Post Office. A woman was waiting at the counter, and the clerk had disappeared. An educated guess was that the woman was picking up held mail. Of course, the few of us were feeling impatient – places to go, things to do…. […]
Jackie Stevenson passed on Sunday evening. This morning’s Minneapolis Star Tribune obituary carried a summary of her political life, and accolades about her. They speak for themselves. Even among other Sheroes, Jackie seems to have been a cut above. Somewhere in my photo files I probably have a better photo of Jackie than the below. […]