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Today I celebrate the day my wife Rene’ trusted her instincts and said “I do.” Understand; it wasn’t really a reciprocal deal. She was the one who had to take the leap of faith in saying “yes” to my proposal. … Continue reading →

Today marks the retirement of a fine journalist. Mark Stodghill, a fixture around the Duluth News Tribune for as long as I have been a lawyer and judge (over thirty years), is putting the old dust cover on the Underwood, … Continue reading →

Some day, it won’t be such a big deal. All of America will have experienced what my family and I experienced at Peace Church in Duluth, Minnesota on Saturday. In the very near future, the official union of two men … Continue reading →

  As you can tell from the caption to the above photo, I’m not talking about my son Dylan Mark Munger or Duluth’s most famous native son, Robert Zimmerman. The title for this blog comes from my need, even when … Continue reading →

My friend Dave Salveson, affectionately known to me and a few other old friends, as “Eddie” (in honor of his deceased father, Edwin, though we called Dave “Eddie” long before the real Ed went to be with his Norse ancestors), … Continue reading →

Vacation. I needed it. Some of you who are loyal CRP blog readers know that the business end of the book world has been eating away at me over the past couple years. I didn’t go into this gig to … Continue reading →

Dr. Bob McVean, a friend and my chiropractor, said something last night that will stay with me. We were at his folks’ place on Island Lake for a post-4th of July picnic and bonfire the day after Independence Day. We … Continue reading →

I had forgotten. It’s not like, over the past 12 years as I scurried about hawking my books at summer craft festivals, that I didn’t have time for the occasional weekend day off to go fishing. But with nearly every … Continue reading →

The trip started off inauspiciously. I was charged by my eighty-five year old father to arrive at the Country Inn Suites in Hermantown, pick up former Vice President Walter “Fritz” Mondale and his traveling companion, George Millard, by 6:00am. Wednesday … Continue reading →

I told you I’d tell you a story about fishing in a snow squall. Well, here it is. For 46 years, the Mungers, the Scotts, and the Nelsons have assembled at the Scott family cabin off Cabin Circle on the … Continue reading →