Today I was at the postoffice, simply to drop off a couple of letters. Two ladies were wanting to do some business there, but the doors were locked, and they seemed confused. It was Monday, after all. I made a mindless quip: blame Columbus. I hadn’t thought of the quip till the situation came up. […]
There are two links in this post which I hope you’ll read in their entirety. With all that is swirling around the “news” universe, this post is motivated by local action threatening local public education. This week was the week that the National School Boards Association, felt it necessary to sound the alarm to all […]
Our friend, Molly, likes to send around some favorite poems at seasons of the year. Autumn began on September 22. Here are her Fall selections – three pages: 2021 Fall poems. Thank you, Molly. * A week ago I was interviewed via Zoom as one of many participants in an international DNA project. The interview […]
Today is [Last Sunday was] the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, observed by the Catholic Church since 1914; I learned about this in an excellent column by Janice Andersen in our church newsletter, which can be read here: Janice Andersen: An ever wider “we“. A separate, younger observance is the United Nations World Refugee Day. […]
Today I was driving in a nearby quiet neighborhood. I was meeting another car in a street narrowed to one lane by two vehicles parked on opposite sides. The occupant of one, a young man, was sort of a traffic cop, though that wasn’t necessary. But it was a nice touch. But mostly I noticed […]
My first post about the 20th anniversary of 9-11-01 is here. My personal quest is to learn from our nations experience in the last twenty years, and help make a contribution to a better world in what time I have left. Another, possibly final, post on the topic will be published on 9-11-2021. * September […]
Individual citizens, like myself, and you, will decide whether this experiment called the United States of America will succeed or fail. January 6 was the first and very major wakeup call about a genuine crisis attacking our democracy. The assault continues. We sit idly by, and we invite disaster. Related posts: August 30 and September […]
A few years ago I heard about a book then a film called “The Hunger Games”. It didn’t much interest me. I neither read the books, nor saw the movie. That changed Monday night: I was invited to a showing of the movie and I went. It is described as a “dystopian” novel and thus […]
President Biden’s remarks on leaving Afghanistan August 31, 2021. Here’s some commentary about it: Just Above Sunset: Some Explaining. More About 9-11: post of September 6, 2021 * I’ll click ‘publish’ on this when August 31 begins in Afghanistan, 9 hours before Minnesota. The intention of this post is strictly to encourage each reader to […]
Thursday’s post, Seeing Ike, began with some comments about Afghanistan, but I said not a single word about the terrorist attacks on the same day. Why? Very simply, when I wrote the piece – published at 12:16 pm CDT, terror attacks in Kabul were not at all on my radar. Kabul time is 9 hours […]