Well, I’ll be doggoned. As I write this, the Minnesota Twins..given little or no chance of being anything but an also-ran..kind of embarrassing..Major League team again this season, has caused fan’s jaws to drop as new Skipper and former Twins’ player, Paul Molitor, has lived up to his old nickname “The Ignitor” and lit a…
I’m not proud of it, but it appears that with advancing age, my attention span is becoming shorter and shorter. (No pun intended..oh wait, that was the last blog) I’ll sit down to this keyboard with every intention of writing something interesting and on schedule only to get hopelessly distracted searching the web for more…
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LUND AT LARGE BLOG CONTAINS MATURE SUBJECT MATTER; READER DISCRETION ADVISED. Ha.. never thought I’d ever feel obliged to post a disclaimer on my scribblings here ..but then again, I don’t wish to alienate any of you good folks by publically discussing, without a heads up, (pun intended) a subject…
“What are you going to do today?” Linda yells from downstairs..barely audible over the din of the treadmill she fires up 4 mornings a week. “Research for the blog.” I yell back from my leather recliner in front of the Vizio HD with a HP notebook in my lap and a distilled beverage close…
Why in the world is Bob Schieffer retiring from CBS? He’s still the sharpest knife in the network’s drawer. His political savvy and general news knowledge is unsurpassed by anybody in TV broadcasting. Bob Schieffer is just too important to leave. So why is he? Oh, that’s right. The man is 78 years old.…
I first heard the term “Norwegian Bachelor Farmer” when I fell head over heels in love with Garrison Keillor’s PBS radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion back in 1982.” My favorite part of the program was..and is..Keillor’s “News from Lake Wobegon;”an account of the people and week’s events in the fictional little Minnesota town of…
I have a new state slogan idea for the South Dakota department of tourism: “Great Faces, Great Races.” That’s right folks, we admit there’s nothing in our state to see or savor between Sioux City and Fargo or Sioux Falls and Rapid City so we’ve jacked up the speed limit to 80 (which, as we…
Sitting in the doctor’s office the other day..I heard those words no patient ever wants to hear. “I’m sorry, Doug. Your condition is irreversible.” He went on to list my short list of options; both are scary to ponder but offer my only hope to end the pain. Okay, okay..enough with the theatrics; the doctor…
Gary Owens died the other day. He was 80. I don’t know the exact cause of death but he’d suffered from diabetes for years. In 2011, as a member of the board of directors for the South Dakota Rock and Roll Music Association, I recommended we induct Owens into the Hall of Fame in the…
Knowing my predisposed propensity for being a clumsy oaf, especially as I grow older and wider, I should not be at all surprised that a relationship which began a year and a half ago and has grown from awkward curiosity to an indispensable part of my daily life, has come to a crashing halt; shattered…