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News from Oct 27, 1984
10.27.84Carl Krebsbach’s brother, Lyle, bought a new car this week from a St. Cloud dealer. The little red foreign car was not available in Lake Wobe…
2 years, 5 months ago
The beauty of a bitterly cold Sunday, 8 a.m.
What I found inspiring were two Scripture readings, one from the prophet Micah, where the reader faced the line, “O my people, remember what happened…
2 years, 5 months ago
Marriage is a game and two can play it
She also loves to look at art, which I can take or leave and mostly leave. I go to museums to overhear conversations between couples, usually the wom…
2 years, 6 months ago
Manhattan man living in the past
I interrupted writing for a while today to have a Zoom meeting about estate planning with a couple lawyers in Minneapolis and for a discussion center…
2 years, 6 months ago
Father Time advises a brown-eyed girl
Prison reform is a truly noble cause because there is no political constituency demanding it. Every time I fly into LaGuardia, I look out at the hell…
2 years, 6 months ago
Thinking about that woman in Kentucky
The woman came by a little later and said, “How’s your breakfast, dear?” I said, “It’s wonderful,” though actually it was rather mediocre, but I didn…
2 years, 6 months ago
So this guy in New York walks into a grocery store
There is so much plasticity and pretense in the world today that when I come across the authentic such as a little kid bawling because his sister kic…
2 years, 7 months ago
The daily pursuit of happiness
Texting replaced the postcard mostly, and I have a shoebox full of old postcards from long-departed relatives about the happy afternoon spent in Pasa…
2 years, 7 months ago
A week in Kansas and Missouri
Journalism is about tragedy and malfeasance and corruption, it’s not journalists’ job to report on happiness, you need to experience that directly, w…
2 years, 7 months ago
We get around correctness by means of comedy
I feel that opera should be inclusive and tell the stories of ordinary people and not just European aristocracy and so I am sketching an opera in whi…
2 years, 7 months ago