It’s been a pretty busy week for this old retired guy.Wednesday Linda and I went to the retirement party for three Patrick Henry teachers, including our longtime friend and music mate, John Mogen.John has been teaching your kids to sing and to play an instrument for 32 years from Parkston to Lennox to Sioux Falls.…
Sometimes it’s best to keep your opinions to yourself. I didn’t and it appears to have cost me the respect of my golfing buddies. (As if I had any in the first place.) Our Tuesday golf outing at Brandon had to be cut short after just nine holes “again” because of cold and rain and…
Psssst..hey buddy, I’ll give you fifty bucks for that beautiful brown caramel roll. Do you know where I can score some potatoes? How about a few lines of powdered sugar? Yup, you guessed it. I’m on the Atkins Diet again and after just one week I’d crawl across the street in my underwear for anything made…
"Geeze, it sure would be nice if we could hear how we sounded," my cousin said after a 1961 practice session at our house. With our electric guitars cranked high, we’d spend hours trying to figure out the right chords and correct Everly Brothers harmony for the latest rock and roll hit songs. "I hear Larsen’s Music…
It wasn’t meant to be a Kentucky Derby party. Our friends, Denny and Joanie came over Saturday to help us hang a ceiling fan in my computer room. By "help" I mean Denny actually does the work. It turns out, though, we didn’t have the proper bracket so it’s a job that will have to wait…
Dear Readers. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a former Keloland co-worker I identified only as "J." After suffering a stroke 15 years ago she was left unable to speak or move below the neck. "J" had made a conscious decision to end her life. I can tell you now that her actual name is…
Remember that robotic voice you’d hear when the National Weather Service would break-in radio or television programming to issue severe weather warnings? No, I’m not talking about Jay Trobec. This voice had..and maybe still does have.. an androgynous monotone not unlike the Conehead characters when they say, “we’re from France.” Thanks to advances in…
"What’s the patient’s name please?" "America..U.S. America." "Is that with a K or a C?" "That would be a C." "Okay, what seems to be the trouble with America?" "Well, she just hasn’t been herself lately, doc. She used to be so beautiful…inside and out. In fact, that’s what we called her, America the beautiful. She…
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittensBright copper kettles and warm woolen mittensBrown paper packages tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite things." I haven’t seen the movie, "The Sound of Music" in years..so why is that song running over and over through my head? I like the tune okay but can’t possibily…
I suppose a headline like that could get me kicked right out of Springdale Lutheran Church just a week after joining. But get your minds out of the gutter, people, I’m talking about women who are involved in motorsports..not as trophy girls but drivers. 26 year old Danica Patrick would be welcome as a trophy…