8 – Free Travel
Two decisions of mine, both made relatively early in life, provided means for me to travel a bit over the years, mostly on somebody else’s dollar. The first was my decision to…
Housekeeping Note
I’m sorry to have been away for a couple of weeks, which in Blog Land apparently is about equivalent to a cosmic year. I’ve been entangled in a string of urgent but…
7 – Berlin and the Brandenburg Gate
Up to the time I enlisted in the Air Force at age nineteen, I had rambled through only two states, both with names ending in Dakota. After my basic training in Texas…
6 – Vanishing Comments and a Sincere Apology
I’m pretty good at turning my computer on, and I enjoy tapping the keyboard when the machine behaves, but that’s about the limit of what I can do. A huge expanse…
5 – Donald Trump, Pro and Con
Donald Trump – Pro and Con A friend and former neighbor of mine, having read my first two blogs, emailed me asking if I was for, or against, Trump. That jolted me…
4 – To Leningrad with the Finns (conclusion)
My senses sharpened when we finally arrived in Leningrad. Nearing the center of the city, we saw few cars on the streets. The cars were mostly small, and some veered around in…
3 – To Leningrad with the Finns
While I was in Kuopio during the late 1980s, a professor friend of mine suggested we sign up for a long weekend bus tour to Leningrad, as the city then was known.…
1 – Stew of the Day
Let’s begin with a question. Is anything troubling you these days? Maybe the upcoming election? Or maybe the COVID-19 crisis? Or civil unrest? As for me, having watched last week’s final debate,…
2 – Left in Wisconsin
When I was a student at the University of Wisconsin in the middle of the last century. I belonged for a time to an eating cooperative, the Green Lantern. In those days…
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