Coming Out Of The Closet

There’s something about three days of cold rainy weather that can really put you in a bad mood. So bad that even a surprise victory by the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday can’t shake it entirely. Linda got up this morning..took one look out the window..muttered something about building a big boat and then decided to…

True Confessions

“How are ya doin’ sonnybuck?”   That was the usual greeting I’d get every time my first father-in-law saw me..which was quite often in my  years of marriage to his step-daughter from 1965 to 1972.   Byron was one of the best-natured people I ever knew. He had a huge smile that stretched from ear…

Off to the Races

I know where I get my love for cars..from my dad.   After retiring from a career in construction, dad shocked a lot of us when he started scouring shelterbelts and attending auctions to find parts for Model T Fords. Then in our tiny garage, he spent hours and hours restoring and reassembling them. Everybody…

Curing Cancer & Burning Water

I’ve had a couple of seemingly sure-bet investment opportunities in my lifetime..opportunities that could have taken a lot of the financial stress out of early retirement had I found the money to follow through on them.   The first was about 11 years ago when our daughter Christy first moved to Phoenix. She along with…

Hear the Big News Boys on Radio

A couple weeks ago, Grant Peterson interviewed Dave Dedrick, Steve Hemmingsen and me for his radio program. We had a great time talking about our years together in broadcasting at Keloland TV.Grant has made audio of the program available on his Brookings Radio website.Here’s the address: Click here to listen in. If you listen..be sure…

The Plane Truth

I try to understand other people’s point of view..I really do. But this latest attempt at creating an uproar over the state’s 2 million dollar purchase of an 8 year old airplane to replace a 29 year old airplane really has me scratching my increasingly grey-haired head.   Many, including a political poster on this…

The Price of Gas

  “Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.” Red Green   Alright..alright..you vegetarians don’t get your rutabagas in a stew, it’s  only a joke.   Here’s another joke that I read the other day and thought was pretty funny: “Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock…

I’m Not One of the Giants

Every time I see my proudly Norwegian cousin Marty Gruseth Erickson, she asks if I’ve read “Giants in the Earth” yet and gets a little frustrated every time I have to tell her “No I haven’t.” It’s the famous novel written in the late 20’s by Ole Rolvaag about Norwegians coming to America and enduring…