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03 Mar

How It All Began

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The other day I received a message from a friend who was preparing to run a 10K(6 miles) and she wanted some advise about training for such a race. I had been a runner for 40 years until a knee problem turned me into a walking golfer and I also had been a cross country coach for 13 years. So I guess she thought I should have some knowledge about training distance runners. That request got me thinking about the very beginning of my…..

03 Feb

Mike’s Mike

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This weekend I was attending a recognition day for an 87 year old lady who had been my teacher two years in a row some 65 years ago. First I should explain that ‘two years in a row’ thing…no, I didn’t flunk a grade! When I was in the second grade my teacher taught a combined class of 2nd and 3rd graders. The next year she taught only 3rd graders and since I had successfully passed the 2nd grade I was in her third…..

19 Jan

Hiking With My Friend

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Yesterday I finally took a hike with a friend that I have been meaning too hike with for several months. I pulled my pair of snowshoes down off the hook on the garage wall and wrestled them onto my boots. In 1980 we moved to a 7.9 acre plot of land out in the country several miles west of Wheaton. Immediately I developed a close friendship with the southern edge of our property as it contained a creek. I had never experienced a…..

11 Jan

An Ugly Baby Is No Joke Or Is It?

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A YouTube post appeared on my Facebook site featuring Flip Wilson a black comedian who performed back in the 70’s. I always enjoyed Flip’s sense of humor so I decided to watch it. Flip was performing on the Johnny Carson Show, a show that I used to watch faithfully every weekday night from 10:30 until midnight. Flip Wilson made his entrance smoking a cigarette which I’d forgotten was a common practice for performers to do back then. Also, smoking was a common occurrence in TV episodes and…..

05 Jan

“God Bless” Those Facebook Atheists

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Several weeks ago on Facebook a post was being shared that questioned why atheists who believe in no god insist on attacking and mocking Christians. Why does it bother them that we Christians believe as we do? Maybe God put them here to serve as “belief strengtheners” for all Christians. That post reminded me of an early Facebook experience I had with an atheist and I’d like to share it with you. Read on to discover how Facebook posts from an atheist…..

19 Dec

Christmas Letter Evolution Struggle – Where Will It End?

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I’ve got our Christmas letter written and ready to stuff into envelopes and mail. It was quite a struggle to accomplish the writing part this year. Sometimes writing goes quickly and other times it is hard work. This fall the writing was hard work but it got much worse once the letter was finished. Yesterday I began the task of making copies of the original “cut and paste” Christmas letter. The printer on my computer decided to print in slow motion….really slow motion. I…..

22 Nov

The Cranberry Season Has Arrived

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I was very young when I first discovered my love affair with cranberries. You would have to journey back with me to the early 1950’s to understand how it all started. As the holidays were approaching the cranberry farmers in our neighboring Wisconsin were knee deep in the cranberry bogs harvesting the cranberry crop. As Thanksgiving approached the store shelves were piled high with transparent bags of cranberries. Each fall my Mother faithfully purchased a bag and brought it home to officially start the holiday season. …..

10 Nov

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

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It’s that time of the year again as holidays approach and craft fairs begin in earnest. This Saturday from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm I’ll be sitting in my ‘mini-book store’ booth at the Herman High School gymnasium. I was a biology teacher in that building for eleven years (1980-1991). However the title of this blog is a little misleading as I was never involved in any crimes during those years. I came close several times but was always able to refrain myself and…..

25 Oct

Thoughts While Traveling to a Funeral

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What a morbid title for a blog but it wasn’t as morbid as if may sound. My sixth grade teacher had passed away at the age of 97 years after leading a happy and successful life. In addition to that she was the one who opened my eyes to the joy of writing and as a result it became a dream of mine to become a published author. As I was making the trip to Glenwood, MN where the funeral was…..

08 Oct

An Early Attempt to Get Published

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In my previous blog “A Teacher Made Me Do It!” Mrs. Sager my sixth grade teacher gave our class a writing assignment to do a bird report. She displayed several of the outstanding reports on the bulletin board and mine was one of them. My classmates said I wrote well and I believed them. So began my dream to become a successful writer. I must add a footnote to last week’s blog as I received a phone call from Mrs. Sager’s son informing me that his mother…..

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