Taylor.. Dale.. Smith. They called out the name of our oldest grandson and in a matter of seconds he walked across the stage, received his high school diploma and turned his tassel over all as Linda and I sat in the crowd at the West Central gym sort of stunned wondering where in the world…
Happy Independence Day! I know, it sounds like I’m posting this a little (several weeks) early but if you happen to have a few pints of Norwegian blood running through your veins, you know that the 17th of May is Syttende Mai..celebrating the day in 1814 when Norwegians drew up a constitution and declaration…
“FORTY SIX DOLLARS AND FIFTY SIX CENTS!” That’s what it cost to fill-up yesterday and it made me so angry that I wanted to lash out at somebody. Linda was in the car but…it was Mother’s Day. There was the young girl working at the Canton convenience store (where the crime took place) who…
“Why do you always have to wait until the last minute to get things done?” Although she died over 11 years ago, I can still hear my mother’s voice scolding me again for that flaw in my character. It’s a flaw I’ve never been able to shake even as I sit here trying…
When I read that former astronaut, Wally Schirra, died of a heart attack this past week, my thoughts immediately took me back about 15 years ago when I was chauffer to this American space pioneer. Schirra was one of our original seven astronauts and the only one to fly in all three manned space…
I’m fat There I said it. I believe some people, including me, are predisposed to be fat. That’s not an excuse, just an observation that I’m sure Jaine Andrews could confirm from some of her Healthbeat reports..especially her on-going saga of Patrick Deuel, the Valentine, Nebraska man who came out of the chute fat…
Some exciting moments at our house this past weekend…over rabbits!. First, on Friday, my wife noticed that those (expletive-deleted) backyard bunnies have been feasting away at the bark of our lilac bush. She’s okay with rabbits taking up winter quarters under our deck but not if it means they’re going to kill off our favorite…
I confess, I’ve been living a lie for the past couple years. Remember all those times Jay Trobec and Angela Kennecke would tease me on the air about how the weather might affect my golf game or that I should play hooky from work to indulge my passion for the sport? Well, the truth is…
There are a few certainties in life; the sun will come up in the morning, the Vikings will never win a Super Bowl and Ratt Reno will be live on the air every day playing traditional country music at KXRB Radio. Ooops..forget about that last one. At 67, my old friend and broadcast…
Those of us who spent a long time in the news business would always cringe whenever we heard a reporter say, “A parent’s worst nightmare.” It has become one of those overused phrases like “an accident waiting to happen” or “lucky to be alive.” Yet, in the aftermath of what has occurred this week,…