Aside from being from South Dakota, what does former senator, George McGovern have in common with Pat O’Brien, Cheryl Ladd, Catherine Bach, Mary Hart, Tom Brokaw and Captain 11? Give up? Well, hold onto your hats folks, McGovern is soon to be immortalized as a bobblehead. On Wednesday evening at the Sioux Falls Canaries baseball…
Well, maybe not “animal”..but I have been spent the last couple weekends on the party circuit. Pretty tame ones, though, no loud music or heavy drinking and most everybody kept all of their clothes on. The first was the annual Phil and Roberta Trooien lawn party at their farm a few miles west of…
What is it hey? Why it’s Buttercup..popcorn.Add sweet cream butter to hot popcornmix it up, wrap it up, buttercup is born.It’s delicious, so nutritious, it’s a taste delightIt’s so munchy, crisp and crunchy, you’ll enjoy each bite.Eat Butter drenched Buttercup, popcorn at its bestServed in a king sized cup.It beats all the rest.Okay, anybody else…
“How’s my miracle lady today?” That’s been the cheery greeting from the doctor this week as she enters my Mother-in-Law’s hospital room at Avera Mckennan ..a room that Mother Mary will be vacating later today. That’s right! Two weeks after the family had been called together in the intensive care unit to consider…
It was one of those surreal moments when I first saw the breaking news from Minneapolis last evening of the I-35 W. bridge collapse. It’s so close to home and a structure most of us have been over hundreds of times. Knowing how busy that highway is, especially at rush hour, my first thought was…
“People have tried and tried but sex is not better than sweet corn” (Garrison Keillor, “A Prairie Home Companion”) I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I certainly have to agree with the bard from Lake Wobegon, that dining on fresh sweet corn with butter and salt is about as pleasurable experience…
Aside from worring that the Russians could start a nuclear war at any minute and blow us all to kingdom come, the fifties was a great time to be a kid..especially a kid who loved baseball. If we weren’t playing the game on some makeshift ball diamond, we were thinking about it. Back then, most…
Last Friday, another family that’s been spending a lot of time in the Avera Mckennan ICU waiting room got the bad news that their loved one..a young man in his early 20’s, had lost his battle with leukemia. Amid their sorrow…just a few feet away..our family was rejoicing after the doctor for my 83 year old…
It’s a real privilege that Keloland allows me this space on the website to share some of my thoughts and memories with you. I hadn’t planned on it being used for daily updates on my mother-in-law’s condition but so many people have indicated that they keep checking the blog for news. Many of you don’t…
Dear Lord..please grant me patience…and grant it to me NOW. That’s an old joke I probably read in a book of church humor somewhere but there certainly is some truth to it..in my case anyway. Most of you have gone through what we are going through now: waiting..and waiting..and waiting in the hospital…