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December 22, 2009 08:16 AM EST (shared with group: December 22, 2009) — 1) A Harvard professor says we've lost our sense of morality when it comes to giving. Over to you, NPR . Experts call it "selfish giving" -- when givers are looking to get back more than just . . . more
December 22, 2009 12:43 AM EST (shared with group: December 22, 2009) — After a break, I'm back to writing letters to the President. In case you don't know, I write one a day (or so), and the letters are silly, random, and usually fairly apolitical, so please check them out. . . . more
December 21, 2009 10:44 AM EST (shared with group: December 21, 2009) — I was a hard-nosed enforcer when I worked for my labor union.  It was a tough, railroad brotherhood of track laborers--gandy dancers.  My members didn't mind at all that I liked classical music, . . . more
December 21, 2009 08:19 AM EST (shared with group: December 21, 2009) — Here's this week's Monday Morning Rouser. Listen as you ponder this: Why has no one written a decent blues -- or any other genre -- song with Minnesota in the title? Buddy Guy, . . . more
December 20, 2009 02:17 AM EST (shared with group: December 20, 2009) — Passing on from a friend: > 'Twas the night before > Christmas & out on the > ranch > > > > The pond was froze over > & so was the > branch. > > > The snow . . . more
December 19, 2009 06:55 PM EST (shared with group: December 19, 2009) — Since the right coast is snowed in, & it's still early on the left coast, & before you get too hassled with Christmas preparations, it's time for a game, boys & girls. I love puns, or what . . . more
December 19, 2009 02:50 PM EST (shared with group: December 19, 2009) — My 90 year old next door neighbor knocked on my door to tell me that there was a package for her the mailman left (he'd buzzed her).  She won't do the steps anymore so I went and got the mail. She . . . more
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December 19, 2009 10:30 AM EST (shared with group: December 19, 2009) — Ker Than for National Geographic News December 18, 2009 Dark matter may have been "felt" for the first time deep in a Minnesota mine, physicists say. Detectors in the mine, part of the . . . more
December 18, 2009 10:50 PM EST (shared with group: December 18, 2009) — I like to post this every year on Gather:   Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus By Francis P. Church, first published in <cite>The New York Sun</cite> in 1897. [See <cite>The . . . more
December 18, 2009 06:50 PM EST (shared with group: December 18, 2009) — We wait, as Christians, for a miracle particularly during this time of Lent. And we wait, as a family, for a miracle for Jaci. I don't know the shape of that event. It might be in a healed body. Or it . . . more
December 18, 2009 11:40 AM EST (shared with group: December 18, 2009) — Mary Lou and i stopped into a favorite Persian restaurant/deli for kabobs.  The deli has a tremendous bulk selection of nuts, honey, dried fruits, Turkish delight, saragli--sweet and yummy things . . . more
December 17, 2009 09:36 AM EST (shared with group: December 17, 2009) — From Mom Culture blends high art with little ones : When many people become parents, they say goodbye to going to the concerts, plays, and other cultural events. It's not just for lack of time. It's . . . more
December 16, 2009 12:04 PM EST (shared with group: December 16, 2009) — Have any of your texts, voice mails or e-mails come back to haunt you? That's Today's Question on MPRNewsQ, and it is timely. Let's take a look at some of the cautionary items stories this week: . . . more
December 16, 2009 01:49 AM EST (shared with group: December 16, 2009) —       Last week we each opened a present filled with something to advance our writerly lives.  Inside my gift box were two published essays.  Oddly, this week . . . more
December 15, 2009 03:35 PM EST (shared with group: December 15, 2009) — Yesterday, I was given the royal run around by Marriott and it took hours! Magilla and I were looking for something fun to do on New Years Eve and came across the website www.thedopotminneapolis.com. . . . more
December 15, 2009 09:57 AM EST (shared with group: December 15, 2009) — This winter I made the unanimous decision (meaning I made it and everyone goes along with it) that once a week we'd make a big ol' batch of something: Chili, Coq Au Vin, Roast Beef, Roast Vegetables, . . . more
December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST (shared with group: December 14, 2009) — Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire. Okay, put your hands down. Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk? Okay, you can stop . . . more
December 13, 2009 10:10 PM EST (shared with group: December 13, 2009) —      Prelude to the Massacre of the Innocents      With his bedclothes wrapped around his legs as if in the throes of ecstasy, he moans and cries out, . . . more
December 12, 2009 03:17 PM EST (shared with group: December 12, 2009) — Mary Lou and I don't have children, but we've developed very special relationships with the children of many of our friends.  So much so, that it led one of our birthday-party-goers to remark, . . . more
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