Category Archives: Blog Archive

(Posted December 25, 2009) I’ve plagiarized the above line from John Lennon more than once. It’s a trap of age, this repeating of quotations, stories from one’s youth, and the forgetting of names of actors in movies, friends long removed, … Continue reading →

(Posted December 9, 2009) Hype. That’s what I see and hear every time I listen to modern day television weather casters. It’s Tuesday. I’m fighting through some nasty criminal court sentencings to get to my last book selling event of … Continue reading →

(Posted November 22, 2009) The above heading isn’t quite right. The program I am using doesn’t let me add the Finnish umlauts that should be placed over the three a’s in the last word. And I might be murdering syntax … Continue reading →

(Posted November 17, 2009) I-35 bleeds through northern Minnesota. I speed along the arterial blacktop in my Pacifica towards another craft show. This weekend it’s an indoor show, the largest in Minnesota, held at Canterbury Downs in Shakopee. The show … Continue reading →

(Posted November 8, 2009) OK, I know. Henry David Thoreau, famed writer, thinker and Unitarian Universalist is dead. So I wasn’t really with him yesterday at Duluth’s UU church. But I was with some of his modern day pals; fellow … Continue reading →

(Posted November 1, 2009) The rain is unrelenting as my Pacifica speeds south towards the Episcopal Diocesan Convention at the Marriot in downtown Minneapolis. The windshield wipers of the car barely keep up with the pounding of water on glass. … Continue reading →

(Posted October 11, 2009) I drove south on I-35 in the early morning light. I was on my way to the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival. Rain Taxi is the name of a book review periodical headquartered in Minneapolis … Continue reading →

(Posted October 5, 2009) The title of this post may be lost on some of you under the age of fifty. Or on those of you who aren’t fans of Joe Walsh. No, not the guy who hosts “America’s Most … Continue reading →

(Posted September 25, 2009) That’s Finnish for “thanks”. What do I mean? Here’s the story. After work, I head north on Highway 53 to do a book signing and a lecture. Two nice ladies greet me with coffee and cookies … Continue reading →

(Posted September 21, 2009) “Hi Mark”, a familiar voice from the distant past says as I sit in my EZ Up tent watching folks stroll by, soft autumn light, the last true light of the year before the sun descends … Continue reading →