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If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break, If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break, When The Levee Breaks I’ll have no place to stay. Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [X2] Got what … Continue reading →

Only love Can make it rain The way the beach is kissed by the sea. Only love Can make it rain Like the sweat of lovers’ Laying in the fields. Love, Reign o’er me. Love, Reign o’er me, rain on … Continue reading →

That’s our access road you see in the photograph.  Really. I took the shot yesterday at about 7:00am. I’m heading due east, towards the Taft Road, to meet up with my son Chris. He’s high and dry where he lives, … Continue reading →

Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages tryin’ to find the sun. And I wonder still I wonder who’ll stop the rain. ((c) John Fogerty) … Continue reading →

The sky is cryin…. Can’t you see the tears roll down the street The sky is cryin…. Can’t you see the tears roll down the street I’ve been looking for my baby And I wonder where can she be (Elmore … Continue reading →

  I’m on vacation. Now, like most American males in a committed relationship, that statement doesn’t imply that I am spending my days away from the courthouse sitting on my tushy reading Tolstoy. OK. I did manage to watch the … Continue reading →

  Rudy Perpich Memorial Drive. Again. Twice in a week. Still, I love the drive. Always have since I started going up to my buddy Jeff’s Finnish farmstead in Colvin Township back in the mid-1970s. There’s something, as Sig Olson … Continue reading →

Saturday morning. It’s five a.m. and I’m up and in the shower, trying to wake up. Today is the day of the Harbor Festival in Tower, Minnesota where I’m slated to sell books for the next two days. The sun … Continue reading →

I can hear the strains of that lovely old Scottish melody as I stand next to the rising waters of the river that defines my life. If I am very still, I can hear the water gurgling, trying to tell … Continue reading →

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing … Continue reading →