I would like to dedicate this blog, if there is such a thing, to long-time library employee Greg Goetz, who recently passed away after working here for 41 years! The staff here have no doubts that he is up there somewhere telling jokes and listening to the Stones. He was a kind soul, and will […]
Finally, baseball season has arrived. As a boy growing up in Minnesota, I was 8 years old when the Twins moved to town. And I was thrilled! One of my fondest memory as a child was my first time at a major league game, and how the grass was greener, the hot dogs were better, […]
When I first started reading on my own as a child, my favorite author was Franklin W. Dixon. I loved the Hardy Boys mysteries, and I remember asking my mom while stopped on a dark night while she was filling the car with gas if she would wait a couple minutes. There were no book reading […]
Living in an older home the last 28 years, our basement has always been a bit of a pit. No uniform paint on the brick walls or cement floor. Unfinished yes, but also dirty, dingy, and poorly lit. Especially our ‘laundry room’, which was the worst, and yet where we spend most of our time […]
Call it a goal, not a New Year’s resolution, but January is a popular month to get organized. Do you wish to downsize your living space? Are you tired of clutter? Does having too much stuff around you make you a bit anxious, or just make you not feel like yourself? Is the task so […]
With November being National Adoption Month, I thought I might share my family personal adoption story. While my wife and I may be soulmates, have been together 38 years this month, and hope and pray we are together forever, our body chemistries were just not compatible. Sadly, after years of trying, and many embarrassing tests, […]
In April of 2019, I wrote a blog about how musicians and bands came up with their names titled “Who is Jethro Tull”? Our world-famous webmaster told me that for some odd reason, people still look at this. So here is part two. As a teenager in the late 1960s, The Monkees were a hot […]
In so many ways, 2020 was a bust, right? Certainly, the larger issues of death, illnesses, jobs lost, and businesses closing were the big picture but who did not miss their favorite outdoor activities? For me, it is all of the free outdoor music events that are so well attended in the Chippewa Valley. All […]
I really do feel a bit guilty. The past several months have been such a terror for so much of the world, and our country. Now India is again in a terrible situation. With 163 plus million cases worldwide, and 3.38 plus millions of deaths, hundreds of millions out of work, millions of businesses closed, […]
For almost a decade my wife and I have watched my nieces and nephews have several children, letting my in-laws have these great grandparent experiences. You watch these babies grow up, play with them on occasion, and get all sorts of pictures and videos. But we are not really involved in their lives, living many […]
