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Month: August 2016

Part 1: The Missouri River abides

The Missouri River exerts powerful influence on me and my personality. As a force, it attracts me to it, and once on its banks, I can’t turn away. Fear fills my life. I’m scared of the future and worry over my career. I doubt my abilities as a father and…

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The debt I owe to Tony Beasley

Tony Beasley, first known to me as Conger, and I met at D’Bronx on 39th and Bell one fall afternoon. I had contacted him because he wrote travel memoir, which was and is my favorite genre. I asked him to come have a talk with me. He didn’t ask what…

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Patrick Dobson on South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s “Dakota Life”

Stephanie Rissler of South Dakota Public Broadcasting interviewed me in July 2015 at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center in Sioux City, Iowa. She and her camera operator Josh Kappler spent a good deal of time with me that day, asking all kinds of great questions. Then, they went out and…

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