Friday I went to a luncheon celebrating 50 years history of an organization for which I once served a one year term as President (2000-2001). The group, Minnesota School Public Relations Association (MinnSPRA) has always been a small organization, probably never exceeding 150 members. It began in 1960, and affiliated with a national group, the […]
“[My sister] Florence was born [Nov. 3, 1918] the year World War I ended. [Nov. 11, 1918] the hired girl and I were out in the snow chasing chickens into the coop so they wouldnt freeze when there was a great long train whistle from the Grand Rapids [ND] railroad track [5 miles away]. In […]
The November 10 mail brought a newspaper column I had been expecting, a tribute to my brother-in-law Michael Lund, who died exactly three years earlier in Fargo ND. The column, by Bob Lind in the Fargo (ND) Forum, Mike Lund Fargo Forum001 tells most of the story, and speaks profoundly for itself. I had the […]
Yesterday’s New York Times headline hit me when it showed up on my computer screen “Now in Power, G.O.P. vows cuts in State Budgets“. Who can do anything but love trimming the fat of bloated, hated, “Government”? It will be an interesting process as a new Minnesota G.O.P. majority in both House and Senate take […]
“Alone in the vast universe I froze hell over And walked on its ashes To create my own history.” (The Haitian struggle – the greatest David vs Goliath battle being played out on this planet.) Ezilidanto November 8, 2010 Last week we attended a very impressively organized Festival for Haiti. People there, cared about Haiti […]
A few days ago we finished the biennial reenactment of the Civil War – the 2010 elections. While this is a supposedly bloodless sport, the biennial result is “a house divided” where one side “wins” and the other “loses”. The aim, especially strong today, is to kill the opposing point of view, relevant though it […]
Thursday afternoon I went over to the Tomb, formerly known as the local DFL (Democrat) headquarters in my town. There were several staff and volunteers working to make order out of the chaos that such places become at the end of a long and chaotic campaign. This was a Tomb, not a Nightclub after a […]
I write having only the sketchiest of information about yesterdays total election results. But I don’t write from inside a soundproof booth either. Yesterday I spent 7 1/2 hours on election judge duty in a precinct ten or so miles from home. My assignment was to hand out and explain ballots, so I had eye […]
I’m writing this post on Monday night, November 1. I will click “publish” when I return from being an Election Judge sometime on Tuesday night, November 2. Except for the last sentence, this post was written before the polls opened anywhere in the U.S., or a single vote was officially counted. Late this afternoon I […]
Quite frequently we have an 11-year old house guest – we’re his kid-sitter for, usually, a few hours. He’s a nice kid. Invariably, though, at some early point in his visit he’ll make the declaration, “I’m bored“, with the direct implication that it is our responsibility to un-bore him. I don’t take the bait. Life […]