Every year around this time, I think about one of the most fascinating interviews I ever did for Keloland News. It was with a Dr. John Jackson..who took part in that famous scientific examination of the Shroud of Turin in 1978. Jackson, along with 40 other scientists, were granted permission by Catholic Church leaders to carefully conduct…
I’ll be the first to admit that I know little or nothing about insurance..other than I’m required by law to have some of it on my house and car. To me, insurance salesmen have always ranked right up there with Jehovah Witnesses on my “duck around the corner when I seem ‘em coming list.” I…
People of the world UNITE! Shut off all your lights and electrical appliances Saturday evening between 8 and 9pm local time (or 8:30 to 9:30 depending on who you ask) because it’s EARTH HOUR. Just think, if you hadn’t checked out Lund at Large today, you might have missed your chance to participate in this…
In the summer of 1965, one of my jobs at Cotton & Company grain elevator was to stuff 100 pounds of fluffy oat hulls into burlap bags..stitch them shut with a sewing machine..stack them up five high on a wooden cart and wheel them into the warehouse. Next to scooping out moldy grain from underneath the…
WOW! South Dakota State University 90Texas Christian University 55 Apparently I wasn’t the only one who missed a good portion of the South Dakota State Women’s incredible debut in the NCAA tournament Sunday night. We were under the impression their game against TCU in Buddy Holly’s hometown of Lubbock Texas was going to be televised by…
Best as I can figure, I’ve owned just 16 cars in my lifetime and still have four of them. I’ve told you before about my inability to part with vehicles until they’ve lost all trade-in value and are in such bad shape they could be written off as totaled if the gas tank is about empty.…
I used to enjoy going to the grocery store. Now..not so much. I just get mad. Food shopping has gotten like buying gasoline last summer: you know you’re getting ripped off but there’s not a dang thing you can do about it. When the cost of food shot through the roof last year, we were told it…
Snow..cold..gusty Northwest winds..blechhh.It’s March so what did you expect..sunny, mild, bird-song singin’ zip ah dee do dah days until we slip gently into Spring? I don’t think so..not around here anyway. No, the month of March is like Lucy holding the football for Charley Brown to kick. He knows she’s probably going to pull it away at…
Well, unless Governor Rounds pulls a fast one like he did on the abortion ban, smoking in every public place..except a couple cigar bars..will be banned as of July 1st. Thank god. The wishes of the many have triumphed over the rights of the few.Now people can stop worrying about catching cancer or having a heart attack…
(I don’t intend to make a habit out of doing blog re-runs but someone the other day asked me about this one I wrote a couple years ago so I decided to give it a second go around.) What are you giving up for Lent? We Christians love to ask that question and compare the degrees of personal sacrifice…