Halloween was always fun and exciting for me as a kid..well, except for that one year where some do-gooder in the church convinced my and most every other child’s parents that instead of going door to door trying to extort as much candy as possible, we should trick or treat for UNICEF. Thankfully, that only…
By the time some of you read this..the cold, rainy, windy, snowy 2008 World Series may mercifully be over. If the Tampa Bay Rays lose they’re probably just glad the thing ended so they could shake off the biting chill of late October baseball in Pennsylvania and fly back home to the healing warmth of…
“It’s just too hard to skate with you, Doug, you’re too short..sorry.” I still remember the sting of those words from Bethany Anundson..a girl from our neighborhood in Volga who was a year ahead of me in school. She was also an excellent roller skater and had agreed to help teach me the basics at…
Bulletin: Hog farmers in Minnehaha County were shocked to discover that their pigs had suddenly sprouted wings and taken flight. Bulletin: Word from the nether region is that the fires of damnation have been extinguished and Hades is now enveloped in ice. Bulletin: The Sioux Falls City Council has UNANIMOUSLY agreed on something. Okay, now…
As I sit here looking out my window, I see the trees bending over in the cold October wind..trying unsuccessfully to hang on to their dying leaves just a while longer. There’s a steady rain beating against the house. It makes a tapping sound and the droplets are sticking to the glass which can only mean…
I know it’s not as important today but when I was young one of the key requirements to finding success in broadcasting was to have a great voice. One of the finest radio and television voices that I ever heard fell silent this past weekend when Tony Dean (DeChandt) died way too young at his…
I have to admit that I wasn’t too thrilled when, on November 7th, 1992, our daughter Brenda and her husband Dale announced that they’d decided to name their newborn son, “Tucker.” I was worried that insensitive classmates would one day tease him..using words..one in particular..that rhyme with it.By November 9th, though, Tucker’s name was the least…
“Hey Doug, you’re the trivia master,” our friend Alona said when she called this week, “Who sang the song Be my baby?” (She’s right, Hemmingsen and I used to be pretty darn good Trivial Pursuit players. In fact, when the board game first came out in the 80’s; our Keloland team usually scored high at…
I took some more political heat from my golfing buddies Thursday; buddies who are still dumbfounded at the notion of my still intending to vote for Obama next month. “You gonna watch the debate tonight?” Bob said. “Yeah, I suppose.” “You just wait, Palin’s gonna kick Biden’s butt.” (only he didn’t say butt and from…
Okay, Wild Bill, I’ll get out of DeadwoodThe vote was unanimous; on our annual excursion to the Black Hills this autumn, Linda and me along with our traveling companions, Denny and Joanie Graves, were going to get off the beaten path and go places and do things we hadn’t done in years or never at…