It’s not like this place has been overflowing with content, but there likely will be a growing sparsity. There’s a variety of reasons. the most significant of which seem beyond my control at the time and which I may discuss in the future if I can get a handle on them.
Suffice it to say [...]
A couple of things drove me a bit crazy (not a long trip) over the last few days. No, it wasn’t the weekend snow or even the reports more are on the way. On Saturday night, my MP3 player died. You know things aren’t looking good when the message “Hard Drive Failure” [...]
Tonight I had tickets to the Stampede game and to the Jolie Holland concert. Since the Stampede played the same team Thursday night, I figured that was a fairly resolvable problem. Then I found out yesterday I would attend neither. Why? Tonight was the night selected to unveil the 2006 championship [...]
Many (my wife included) might say I am oblivious to much that goes on around me. Today could serve as a case in point.
I forgot (or hadn’t realized) that Monday is MLK Day until somebody mentioned over lunch that our office is closed Monday. It was like being handed a three-day weekend out [...]
My New Year’s Eve tradition of the last several years — going to the Stampede hockey game — didn’t take place this year because the team they are supposed to play is snowed in elsewhere. At least the Wild game (and a decent one at that, against the NHL’s current #1 team) was on [...]
Although I call it my traditional one, my Christmas greeting is not traditional in the standard sense of the word. But you gotta realize this is coming from someone whose kids remember John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” as being the Christmas song they heard most often at home while growing up. I [...]
For those who remain oblivious to the importance of Seinfeld in pop culture, today is one of the greatest of all holidays: Festivus.
Frank Costanza, tired and concerned by what Christmas had become, realized “there had to be another way.” Thus, he created “a Festivus for the rest of us!” This video gives you [...]
I am still exhausted. Who would have thought watching a daughter win a state volleyball championship could be so wearing? Then what I knew all along hit my consciousness upside the head. I wasn’t just invested in the tournament for my daughter. It was for an entire group of girls who [...]
Sioux Falls Roosevelt Rough Riders
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
For the last number of years, we have heard how important it is to entice South Dakota’s top high school students to attend in-state colleges and universities to increase the chance our best and brightest will stay in the state. This week I got an up close view of just how poorly we [...]
It may have been a perfect way for an American to spend the fifth anniversary of 9/11: aboard a cruise ship on the Ionian Sea en route from Dubrovnik, Croatia, to Greece, and then Turkey. While the setting and travel are obvious reasons why, there are many others.
With few English language newspapers, no U.S. [...]
When I warned a couple weeks ago that posting would be sparse, I didn’t think it would be quite as sparse as it has been. That is the result of two milestones — turning 50 and doing so during my first real travel abroad. While suffering from a moderate case of jet lag [...]
With apologies to Warren Zevon for the title, today’s local daily confirmed I’m on a bad streak.
First, I learn the Red Willow Band is playing in the Great Hall on September 16. Then, the daily announces Bob Dylan is returning to Sioux Falls Stadium on September 8. All though both are within days [...]
We be back, although after two weeks in Florida and the Caribbean it was a bit of a shock to the body to walk out into 55 degrees and drizzle wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
I planned to catch up on the blogs and news and provide various links to things I’ve missed, as well as [...]
A quick personal note and check-in. As I write this, I sit on the deck of a cruise ship southwest of Cuba and east of Mexico. Since later this week marks the 20th anniversary of when I began practicing law, I am in the midst of something I have never done in those [...]
White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
Album of the Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich by Paul Garson
