In the last few days, two well known institutions of higher learning in South Dakota have taken on a new look…a leaner, meaner appearance that, according to the image makers, will not only boost the pride factor at each respective school but also strike fear into the hearts of their rivals on the field of…
“Boy it sure got cold last night.” “How cold was it?” “It was so cold that the town flasher ran up to a woman and described himself.” As I sit here at my computer desk looking out the window, it’s hard to realize that on the other side of the glass, just a…
I was with several other members of the senior class at Volga High School who had just finished eating lunch in the school cafeteria and were slowly drifting back to the study hall for a few minutes before our next class. It was Friday and, as usual, hard to concentrate on school work with the…
All my life, I’ve had this thing about cats; I don’t like them all that much. It’s not that cats are particularly evil or anything it’s just that they seem to have this superiority complex and condescending attitude that I find annoying and, yes, intimidating. When I was a boy, I remember a stray cat…
Howdy folks.. Ah bet y’all were fixin’ to call out the police figerin’ that yer trusty ol’ blogger had been abducted by aliens around Roswell, New Mexico or had ventured a mite too close to the Mexican border at Juarez and wound up in the back of a truck headed off to an avocado…
I’ve been looking around trying to spot some of the hundreds of celebrities that are in Phoenix for the Super Bowl and the FBR pro golf tournament but haven’t seen a one. Perhaps that’s because Linda and I rarely leave the peace and tranquility of this lovely town called Fountain Hills. Located a dozen or…
We South Dakotans may have to put up with pesky disease carrying mosquitoes and those annoyingly noisy cicadas that screech from the treetops each summer. We may have to live in constant fear that a deer or raccoon will decide to end it all by scampering out onto the road directly front of our car.But…
Alzheimers has claimed another victim..an old friend and fellow broadcaster, Ken Hirsch. This awful disease started attacking Ken’s brain several years ago stealing away the Ken we all knew..little by little until he no longer knew us. My first exposure to Ken Hirsch was watching him doing sports and weather on the brand new…
When he was the popular Keloland weatherman, Dave Dedrick could get by with saying a lot of things on the air that no one else could… then or now. I loved it when he would say stuff like, “It’s going to get cold tonight.” Then Hemmingsen, Burt and me would all respond off camera in…
Hillary stopped by the other day. She showed up fashionably late for a rally at a Phoenix high school talking about health care and the need for America to start setting goals again. That disappointed many in the crowd of 10 thousand who wanted some answers on the mortgage crisis which is blamed for about…