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The Post Office’s looping problem is crazy. It is totally ridiculous. It needs to be remedied now. I experienced this frustrating problem first hand when I mailed initial copies of my memoir, A Streak of Dakota Dust, to destinations across the country. What exactly is the problem? Thanks to using […]
Inflation: a personal lesson. Most of us get them from time to time, those faint echoes from the past that reveal how prices move up over time. My latest lesson came a few days after a house I once lived in was sold and cleaned out. Among the odd items […]
Introducing A Streak of Dakota Dust. I’m pleased to announce that my memoir is now available for pre-order and will be released on August 11. I’ll tell more about the book after we look at its cover. This memoir describes my early years during the Great Depression, a time remarkably […]
Theo of Golden: A Review. Do you know of this impressive novel and its unusual history? How unusual? Well, it was initially self-published in 2023 and sold over 170, 000 copies before a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster took over as publisher in November, 2025. The book, now on The […]
Are politics and medicine entwined? A report published this week in JAMA Forum suggests these two fields actually have connections. Are you scratching your head? The link between the two is revealed in a few snippets from that report. Read the following: In the nearly 50 years that Gallup has queried […]
Worried about AI? I am, and for reasons that should frighten everyone. There’s no doubt that Artificial Intelligence can be remarkably useful. You’ve probably used it. I have. I tinkered with it for an earlier post to show how clever (and fast) AI is at composing a poem (see that […]
Happiest Countries on earth. Have you seen the latest list? The top four happiest locations all lie north of the USA. I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in each of those easygoing nations, and I have no quibble with the results. I smiled a lot while in each country. […]
Our Little Irritations. I think most of us sense them, those petty events that set off little twinges, those inconsequential triggers that blip on our radar and cause us to respond as predictably as Pavlov’s dog (or at least I do) when our bell rings. For me, it’s usually a […]
My Harris-Trump choice drained me. But I finally have determined which candidate I will vote AGAINST. My decision came in a flash, thanks to an unexpected epiphany that focused on factors I had not even considered earlier. An examination of those factors revealed which of these sorry candidates scares me […]
The agonizing Harris – Trump race has created a dilemma for at least half of our country’s voters, I among them. Millions of us find both candidates unfit for the job. To summarize my own view, I rate these two nominees as the least desirable pair to run for the […]
