With the Minnesota Senate passing a bill that gives financial aid to illegal immigrants for college educations, I sit back and wonder where their minds are. Don’t get me wrong. I understand the logic of helping these kids who have grown up here grow and learn. And since many have been here most of their […]
As I hunched over the StarTribune, attempting to give my tired body a rest, a co-worker looked at the big-screen TV in horror and asked if that was a bomb. I turned to see “Terror at the Boston Marathon” above a photo as the news reporter was talking about the incident. The break room was […]
I am finally publishing my book, which has kept me very busy over the last few weeks! Though I never thought I would work with self publishing, that is the direction I am going. I had never wanted my work associated with self publishing, except in the book arts arena. I worked at a small […]
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I have always wanted a roll-top desk. Not just any roll-top desk. A big one like the old post office desks with lots of small cubbies or drawers. Now I have one. When we set up our small office two years ago my desk was shoe-horned into the 50 inches between the side of the […]
I have been sitting back watching the debate about tightening the gun control laws following the shootings in Newtown and wondering where people’s heads are. Let me preface this blog by saying I have never liked guns. When my children were young, the only guns I would allow them to play with squirted water. They […]
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