On the road again, like a band of gypsies we go down the highway.We’re the best of friends, insisting that the world keeps turning our way.Willie Nelson Big motel disappointment while on family vacation in the fifties….no indoor toilet. Big motel disappointment while on family vacation in the sixties…no TV. Big motel disappointment…
Do you believe in miracles? Well, I’m here to tell you that Linda and I witnessed one first hand last night and we’re still reeling from the experience. We don’t see our good friends, Dave and Marjean Dedrick as often as we should. It’s always a fun time when we get together, especially…
He wasn’t daddy or papa or pop or father..just Dad. Harry Lund would have been 101 this year and it’s 30 years since he died but I still think of him every day and see his face every morning in the mirror. Like most boys of his era, Dad left school after the…
Mention the word "wizard" today and kids automatically think of Harry Potter and his magic wand-toting pals at Hogwarts.But in my generation there was only one Mr.Wizard and he made Saturday morning television magical in millions of homes across America in the 50’s and 60’s.Don Herbert was born in Waconia, Minnesota but went to college in LaCrosse, Wisconsin…
Hindsight really is 20-20…or maybe 20-60. But the fact is, I see things about my growing up years a whole lot clearer now than when I lived them. As a kid, I remember thinking how my parents, dad especially, seemed to favor my two brothers over me. I was the middle son..not the first-born…
At the age of 35, my uncle, Private 1st Class Raymond Lund, would have been considered the old man of his outfit, Company C. of the 357th infantry. Most of the soldiers who climbed over the side of their ship and down the rope ladder to waiting landing craft below on D-Day, were 10 to…
I can see the headline now.. “Former Keloland News anchor, Doug Lund, jailed for watering violation.” “I couldn’t figure out how to program the dumb automatic sprinkler controls,” Lund was quoted as saying as he was being lead off across his beautiful green lawn in handcuffs early Saturday morning. “He’ll have plenty of…
“So, how’s retirement going there then?” Are you “enjoyin’ all that free time you have now-ah days?” “Do you wish you were still on the TV? Bet you’re glad to be done with those crazy hours, huh?” “Retirement must be treatin’ you right..looks like you haven’t been missing any meals..ha, ha, ha.”…
When it was first conceived after the Civil War, Memorial Day..or Decoration Day as it was called for the next 100 years, was supposed to be a time for paying tribute to Americans killed in war. In my lifetime, though, it’s come to mean honoring “all” who have died by making trips to…
(Two Norwegians on their first visit to South Dakota) “Doss da vind alvays blow dis vay?” “No, I hear dat sometimes it blows da odder vay.” I know, I know, windy days are all part of the great South Dakota living experience but, like me, it’s getting old. I’m tired of worring about the huge…