Thursday evening we came home from a visit with our friend, Catherine. It was still daylight, and the outlines of a full moon rising was on the eastern horizon. Happy Easter. Easter is one of those many holidays which is a blend of nature, custom and religious tradition: the Sunday after the first full moon […]
Day Two (April 19, 2019) of the Public Version of the Mueller Report. Just Above Sunset’s “The Jerk”, is passed on with the permission of the publisher. This was published about midnight, April 18, 2019, PDT. This is lengthy, but very well worth your time. I highly recommend this several times a week blog, most […]
I learned about the disastrous fire at Notre Dame today, as I learned about the collapse of the Twin Towers 9-11-01. In neither case, did I see the images until long after the event, and then the reality set in. My father is 100% French-Canadian, so France is not an abstraction to me. At the […]
Saturday, our local Senator and state representatives met in an open meeting with residents of the district. Here’s a photo taken today, with a youthful constituent “lobbying” very articulately about his issue. This meeting was like others I have attended. This day I counted about 50 of us in the room (below). The meeting was […]
Tonight in downtown Minneapolis MN either Virginia or Texas Tech will be National Champions in College Basketball. You won’t see us among the 74,000 in the stands. Easier to watch it on TV. My contribution to the tournament is some reminiscences of country North Dakota Basketball in the 1950s. More about the photo in a […]
Sorting through papers recently, I came across a photo, received in October, 2007, from my cousin, Pauline. The photo was taken in April, 2007, in Las Vegas, with Celine Dion, Pauline and three of her sisters, one of whom knows Celine very well. Five French-Canadians, all five Canadian. I’d guess everybody knows Celine Dion in […]
“…Everyone in this country should have good food and medication….” Snippet” of conversation overheard by passerby at local fitness club, March, 2019. See postnote, near the end of post. More on “the AGED” “below the fold”…. Please read the last paragraph. I am hoping that this post will provide lots of grist for conversation and […]
Mark you calendar: Tuesday, April 9, will be a marvelous 10th anniversary celebration of a great project, John Noltner’s “A Peace of My Mind”. You’re invited to the party in South Minneapolis. All details are here. My acquaintance with John goes back a number of years when we met at a meeting of the Minnesota […]
I write at 6 p.m. CDT on Sunday, March 24. I have followed the Russia matter very closely since the beginning, and I will continue to follow it closely in the future. Having said that, doing a search, I find I mentioned “Mueller” in blog posts in only three posts on two dates: 18 Dec […]
A special event in the Twin Cities. Tomorrow (March 20) 6 p.m. at the Weyerhaeuser Auditorium at St. Paul’s Landmark Center : ‘Myths, Legends and Epics’ through the lens of veterans’ experience All details here: Storytelling Day 2019