Last March I wrote a blog titled “Journey South With the Women of My Life” The blog described a bonding time I shared with my wife and two daughters as we traveled to the Mayo Clinic for second opinions on a couple of health issues. Both prognoses were positive so the journey had a happy ending. Then last week an email arrived to remind me of an occurrence that took place in the Mayo Clinic complex that I had almost…..
I spent last week making copies with my laser printer, punching holes in 1100 sheets of computer paper with my three-hole punch and then attaching with painstaking accuracy 3300 of those support circles around each punched hole. I thought the job would never get done! Let me explain how I got myself into such a predicament. Several years ago I was at a mall sitting behind my table displaying my books and attempting to entice shoppers to wander over and…..
When my two brothers and sister were small it was exciting to climb into the old 49 Ford and ride into town with our folks as they tended to some business. That excursion happened occasionally during the week but for sure on Saturday night. On Saturday the car not only contained the family of six but also a can of cream and chicken eggs packed and layered in special boxes designed to transport them to the creamery so that they…..
Sixty years ago attending the Big Stone County Fair was an exciting event for me. Being a 4-H kid meant I would spend Thursday entering my exhibits in the 4-H building. Hopefully the paint was dry on the bird house I entered for my conservation project. The safety poster had probably been painstakingly completed the night before. No, I wasn’t a procrastinator. I was a perfectionist and slow besides! 🙂 Thursday night was long and sleep was difficult as one anticipated the…..
Great Bend, ND has a population of 59 people but last weekend they had a celebration that swelled the population to at least four times that number. I love small towns so I decided to accept an invite to set up my white and yellow striped canopy tent and market my five books. Since I had never explored the little North Dakota town before I took a few minutes to drive around and sight see before setting up. It only took a few…..