Fall Fireworks
The golden leaves fall one by one as they silently pirouette to earth. They cover the narrow path I walk on with harvest colors that cannot be painted with human hands. They loudly crunch beneath me...
View ArticleThanksgiving, then the real feeding frenzy
Thanksgiving and Black Friday - Two national holidays becoming one feeding frenzy. Thanksgiving, the once-sacred holiday inspired by the early settlers, Native Americans, and George Foreman, is...
View ArticleA human’s guide to wearing mismatched socks
Unless you live by the equator, a southern beach, or stomp grapes, you are usually found wearing socks. We all have a drawer, or some type of container, dedicated to our multi-color,...
View ArticleOn the 21st Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
On the 21st day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.. A 21″ shovel… For clearing out the driveway.. It’s 8 degrees and falling… The kid is on the Xbox… My finger’s all have frostbite… The cat is …...
View ArticleOn the sixteenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
On the sixteenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Sixteen candles on a Reindeer… He’s wearing my new slippers, his time is drawing near… I’ll mount him on the Fireplace… The neighbors will...
View ArticleEgypt has first snow in 100 years, holds impromptu winter olympics…
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View ArticleMerry Christmas!
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View Article55 moves is a lot of You-Haul.
I have moved more than a migrating Arctic Tern. To date, a total of 55 times since birth. I guess the womb without a view wasn’t in the final tally. So, 56 times counting the nine months in the womb...
View Article$50,000 buys 143 Nacho Libre Trikes
How much of your hard-earned money are you willing to dump into a depreciating, four-wheeled, rolling mass of metal, plastic, tinfoil with fluids your dog can’t lick? On average, Americans pay $477 per...
View Article3 menus and a fork
At 6 am, I dragged my sleepy, semi-comatose self into Perkins for a meeting. The overly enthused waiter quickly throws down three thick menus and peppers me with salty questions: Do you want coffee...
View ArticlePopcorn with a movie.
Where I grew up, in the land of lakes, mosquitos, Norsemen remnants, and Crappies (Norse for “smelly fish”), Movie Theaters were outdoors. Built on former corn fields. We would load the large trunk...
View ArticleBatteries R Us.
“Charge!” no longer means riding your horse with armor, spear and full beard into battle against the neighboring clan…like Wisconsin. Especially if you’re a Norseman living west of the meat-packers....
View ArticleFast – Food…Is it either or neither?
I was staring at the fast-food combo list at a local chain and noticed how enticing they looked on the full-color, jumbo-sized placard’s that show every conceivable combination of monosaturated fat...
View ArticleMen on bicycles…are still men.
I’ve been an avid bicycle rider for the past twenty-five years. The simplicity of a bicycle has always been a moving, two-wheeled oasis in all situations of life. You can’t touch me; I’m on a bike....
View ArticleCelebrate…Recovery
I run a 12-step recovery program called “Celebrate Recovery.” We have live music and I like to borrow my music stuff to those that have less music stuff. My complicated life consists of much-stuff,...
View ArticleThe techno-babble fly rod…the fish don’t care.
The Rainbow Trout scoffs at the conspicuous display of technology your hand holds as you cast the Terrestrial Ant behind the rock where the real ants fall of the banks, like lemmings to the piper. You...
View ArticlePedaling the backroads of Montana
The small one-hundred year old cemetery I bicycled by was positioned for all the departed to face south and take in the Beartooth Mountain range with an unobstructed view from on top of the bluff. The...
View ArticleRapelje Jack, Fishin’ the Cowboy Way
Rapelje Jack was as much a Montanan as the sky is big, Bison head-butt Japanese tourists, and the deer and antelope play (until October, than they play dead). He could rope anything that ran,...
View ArticleThe Alumacrafter, The “Un-official” Minnesota State Bird.
After returning from a trip to Northern Minnesota, I realized the State Bird is really not the Loon (Gavia-inner) at all, but the Alumacrafter (Row-your-butt-off-us). The Alumacrafter’s are a...
View ArticleWho’s your cable daddy?
Cable company lines are buried underground, run across electrical poles, and zip-tied to fences. They carry phone, internet and cable TV to your home, office and the Winnebago parked on the vacant lot...
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