One of my favorite TV programs, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, must have spent a third of Sunday’s show acknowledging the passing of important people in the year 2014. Bernice Schultz was not among them although to my mind she should have been. Mrs. Schultz died at her home in Winter Park, Florida a…
(From Santa’s vault) I was awakened early this morning by a thumping noise coming from the basement followed by a faint sound that reminded me of the bell teacher’s ring to call kids in from recess. There has been a little criminal activity in our part of town lately and my first thought was, “there’s…
I probably will never require carpel tunnel surgery because of too much time spent at the keyboard writing blogs. But my digits do get a serious..perhaps syndrome-inducing work-out pushing buttons on the remote control changing TV channels or utilizing the DVR to its maximum capabilities. It’s one of the reasons..well, okay, the MAIN reason.. Linda…
I haven’t written a blog for awhile and after this one..it might just be my last..but here goes. This past week, as I discovered the names of many talented journalists at the Argus Leader who were getting canned in the company’s latest strategy move to keep afloat or relevant..or whatever… I also learned that the…
It’s true that us old farts have glommed on to Facebook making it uncool for kids to hang around much anymore but I don’t give a rip. I’ve had great joy reconnecting socially with people from the past..especially those who passed through the Keloland newsroom on their way to bigger and better things. Many came…
Sorry kids..the Lund house will probably be dark on Halloween night. It’s not that we don’t love you, it’s just we’re too cheap to spring for candy. Nah..that’s not really it either. I suppose the main reason, for me anyway, is that Halloween hasn’t been the same without kids or grandkids around to take trick…
Every time I see or hear somebody going gaga over the puzzlingly popular “Duck Dynasty” TV reality series, I think back to an interview I did over 20 years ago with a Sioux Falls gentleman named Frank Heidelbauer who was in the same business as Phil Robertson (creator of Duck Commander duck calls) only he…
I had quite a scare the other day. After waking up from, what has become my regular afternoon siesta, I couldn’t remember the president’s first name. I don’t know why I wanted to remember the president’s first name but apparently I did and couldn’t. (Please don’t read anything political into this.) Obama was no problem.…
Well, some interesting things since we last visited. A potpourri of items to follow: First, I suppose, was the wake-up call/reality check from the Minnesota Vikings reminding me that they will always squish my foolish early optimism with humiliating defeats..and, to make matters much worse, the team’s biggest star, Adrian Peterson, has fallen from the…
I finally got our yard mowed for the first time since my brother….. Nope, not going down that path again. It’s just that nearly everything that crosses my mind..while awake or asleep..has this common denominator of BD or AD (before Denny/after Denny) and I know it has to end..especially since I have been given pretty…