Opinion
Gotta feed those cows
A story that may best illustrate the struggle feeding the settler livestock may be the adventure of Michael Peggar.
OUR VIEW: Plan to attend services
Borderland will, like many other American communities, celebrate the Memorial Day holiday with the traditional long weekend activities: Grilling, fishing, and we hope recalling why it is we can do those things.We urge all this weekend to honor and celebrate the people who have sacrificed the most for the rest of us: veterans who have died in the line of service.
Hometown Haunts
Following several COVID-related absences, May’s first week found old adventurer along with long-term bride, sweetheart and best friend visiting southern outer-ring metro hometowns, springtime on near-full display.
Boy and Girl
In this day and age those two words in the title are politically inflamed, but we’re not going there.
Let’s talk about honesty
Whenever I open an egg carton, I think of the chicken at work in the factory, creating this elliptical work of art onto a conveyor belt, to be stolen away, and then the hormones in the chicken feed kick in and the process of creation repeats itself, sort of like me and limericks: I write a good one and it stimulates the next limerick and pretty soon I have a hundred of them, which I could collect in a book but won’t because very few people appreciate limericks — women do not, because so many cruel limericks have been written about women, and when men read a limerick they think, “I could’ve done better than that,” being the compulsive competitors they are, and meanwhile here I am with this work of art in my hand.Minneapolis is great.
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Old timer journalist here, long removed from formal institutions of education, tries to keep eyes and ears open for more learning.