POSTNOTE 6 FEBRUARY 6, 2024: Followup posts: Nov 4, Nov 8, Nov 18, Dec 10, Dec 25, 2023, Feb 5 2024 POSTNOTE 5 October 24, 2023: I continue to seek some kind of reasonably reliable information about what, exactly, Gaza is. Here’s something from NBC News which seems reasonably reliable and helpful. POSTNOTE 4 October […]
This is an ‘odd couple’ post, consisting of two recent editorials in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and an update on a previous post. Three different topics. First, I completed reading Cassidy Hutchinson’s memoir, “Enough“, and I summarize it by adding to my initial post about it, here. Succinctly, the book was a very good use […]
In December, 2003, and again in March, 2006, I had two opportunities to visit wonderful ordinary people in the country of Haiti. In 2008, four disastrous tropical storms hit Haiti in August and September. Two years later, Haiti advocates grieved together as Haiti suffered through the unimaginable. tragedy of the earthquake of January, 2010; thence […]
POSTNOTE 3 – October. 6, 2023: I completed the book, Enough, by Cassidy Hutchinson, Wednesday, Oct. 4. It has become one of the unusual books that I read from cover to cover. There are many reviews, and it is not my intention to review the book, other than saying I found reading this 26 year […]
This post relates specifically and solely to a local school election in suburban St. Paul MN. It is my personal opinion, about my own school district: Dick Bernard 1. There are a large number of candidates for three school board seats. My personal preferred candidates: MELINDA DOLS, SATONIA MOORE SIMI PATNAIK These candidates, in my […]
May 28 to June 9, 2003, we joined my cousin and her husband on a Baltic cruise on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. It was a marvelous time, Copenhagen start and end; St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3 and 4; the other days Stockholm, Helsinki and rural Finland, Estonia, Gdynia (Gdansk) Poland; Oslo, Norway. […]
For years we’ve subscribed to short season (usually 6 concerts) of the Minnesota Orchestra, a magnificent band! This mornings Minneapolis Star Tribune, page one, featured the debut of a new conductor. As the review in the Variety section headlines: “Thomas Sondergard makes an epic debut”. Here’s the front page photo: Here’s the program descriptor of […]
I’m ending this week with ‘miscellany’ – there’s far too much going on to write about everything. Here goes: VLADIVOSTOK Earlier this week, Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin met near Vladivostok, Russia. I am a long-ago Geography Major. Back then – the 50s – I would only have known it had to be a […]
POSTNOTE: Chuck W sent his own blog commentary, which can be accessed here. * Today is the 22nd anniversary of 9-11-01. It was a Tuesday. Over the years, I have written often about aspects of 9-11 and its profound impact on me, personally, but I wondered, this year, why the attention? It is, after all, […]
An unwritten rule of the road in these parts is don’t mess with summer, which ends with Labor Day. Makes sense to us. So, when we met J. Drake Hamilton of Fresh Energy on August 18, I said I wouldn’t pass information along till September. By our Minnesota rule-of-thumb it’s now Fall. We’ve been a […]