How are you doing on this damp July day? Funny. July and damp. Do these go together? Not usually. But it’s been like that in Minnesota the past few weeks. And sometimes life is that way – things that normally don’t go together seem to come along. We take the good with the bad. Our […]
Walt Disney. What a dreamer. He said: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” What is your dream? If you look at my life history, I think it’s obvious that God called me to be an eternal creative force in the world. To be honest, it hasn’t been […]
“You’ve been STRIPPED!” Okay, we never really hear this aloud. We might have occasion sometime in our lives to hear “You’ve been Punk’d!” But you probably will never hear “You’ve been stripped!” Yet, the chances are much greater that you will experience this once, if not several times in your life. I’m thinking today about […]
We see the cops in the media often lately. What are they usually doing? Beating someone up, choking them… Sometimes killing them. I’m sure that bothers you like it bothers me. We need a new mode of thinking and training for police. They cannot go beyond what the law allows. I mean, pulling a gun […]
Just a couple of feet away. That’s all that separated my grandfather from instant eternity as he fought in the trenches of France during World War I. Starting in 1914 and lasting 4 years up to 1918, ” The Great War” was an unbelievably brutal conflict in which Germany fought Britain, The United States and […]
Yep. I went to Training School to learn my Thanksgiving skills. I was schooled and sharpened; re-tooled, tried and tested by my own mother. She was a Thanksgiving Meal Master. She has been taught in the school of amazing Thanksgiving deliciousness by her mother – my grandmother, a Jedi Thanksgiving cook in her own right. […]
“Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? Aaaaahhhhhnnaaeeeeyyyyyaaank!” That’s a direct quote from the blockbuster comedy film “Dumb and Dumber” starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas. It was a very funny moment but I recommend the edited version. I must admit I laughed out of my chair during that movie. But I think […]
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I love a good story. Especially do I love a good story well told. One of my favorite memories growing up was listening to my father and his brothers telling stories about their childhood. The crazy pranks they pulled on each other growing up on a Southern Minnesota farm rank in my mind as some […]