Ennui and lack of enthusiasm conquered the last several months, extending now to years, of my life. I wanted a way out, a way to see that, in fact, I’m a lucky guy with a decent home, family, and work. But it didn’t happen. I constantly got up in the…
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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…
Leave a CommentTony 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…
Leave a CommentStephanie 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…
One CommentThree months lie between us and the election in November. The airwaves will likely be long on attack ads and self-righteous politicians boasting about how much more family oriented or moral or conservative or gun friendly they are than their opponents. The PAC attack ads will saturate the television and…
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