“People have tried and tried but sex is not better than sweet corn” (Garrison Keillor, “A Prairie Home Companion”) I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I certainly have to agree with the bard from Lake Wobegon, that dining on fresh sweet corn with butter and salt is about as pleasurable experience…
Aside from worring that the Russians could start a nuclear war at any minute and blow us all to kingdom come, the fifties was a great time to be a kid..especially a kid who loved baseball. If we weren’t playing the game on some makeshift ball diamond, we were thinking about it. Back then, most…
Last Friday, another family that’s been spending a lot of time in the Avera Mckennan ICU waiting room got the bad news that their loved one..a young man in his early 20’s, had lost his battle with leukemia. Amid their sorrow…just a few feet away..our family was rejoicing after the doctor for my 83 year old…
It’s a real privilege that Keloland allows me this space on the website to share some of my thoughts and memories with you. I hadn’t planned on it being used for daily updates on my mother-in-law’s condition but so many people have indicated that they keep checking the blog for news. Many of you don’t…
Dear Lord..please grant me patience…and grant it to me NOW. That’s an old joke I probably read in a book of church humor somewhere but there certainly is some truth to it..in my case anyway. Most of you have gone through what we are going through now: waiting..and waiting..and waiting in the hospital…
As most of you probably know, I’ve been married before. Well, okay, twice before. Lucky for me, Linda has stuck with me for 23 years now..and we both figure it will probably work out.I only bring this up because, contrary to what comedians like to joke about, I have gotten along great with all my mothers-in-law…espcially Linda’s…
I had a blog all written out earlier this week containing some personal thoughts on the upcoming execution of Elijah Page. I write these things out on the computer and was in a hurry as I was copying it over to the Keloland web site and somehow hit a wrong button and the entire column…
When I used to go on CBS promotional junkets for Keloland TV to places like New York and Los Angeles, it gave me a chance to meet representatives of other network affiliate stations from around the country. Invariably the conversation would get around to ratings. Most were delighted if their local newscasts could muster a…
It would be like Christmas without lefse (Norwegian version of a tortilla only made from potatoes) if I didn’t see at least a short fireworks display on the Fourth of July. So, tonight just before dark, I’ll try drag Linda, who doesn’t share my sentimentality about tradition, off to some public fireworks show. A few…
After longtime CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite returned from a trip to Vietnam in 1968 and reported his observations on the air, many people began to change their minds about that war. Cronkite concluded that our military leaders were not telling us the whole story and U.S. involvement in Vietnam, in his view, could no…