And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43)

We were at our friends’ house, sitting on the deck and talking the typical way of old timers. One of our ilk commented that we [Read more…]

Long ago God destroyed the world by flooding it. The Mississippi showed St. Louis and surrounding areas just how terrible that judgment had been. Native peoples called the river “Father Waters,” and that father was furious. [Read more…]

Those of you that read my musings and incoherent rants know that I’m grooming a grandson to replace me as pie-consuming Geezer. That’s not as easy as it sounds. I have to proceed carefully or he may become [Read more…]

Yours’ truly, your on-the-scene reporter, is reporting live from Minneapolis. I’m in the ivory tower overlooking Mall of America and Midwestern liberalism. [Read more…]

Life is pain. I’m real proud of that saying. It’s what I told my kid when she was whining about something insignificant like a broken nail or imminent thermonuclear war. I didn’t mean to make light of her [Read more…]