Saturday, July 5, 2025

Here’s the Thing: Dealing with a significant loss of dignity

I have what my daughter would call a first-world problem. Like many, I have lost a great deal of money/value in retirement...

Yet another head-spinning week

If there is no topic and a first draft of a column typed by Wednesday evening, I usually throw in the towel...

Angelkeep Journals: Some prairie-chicken ponderings

This column topic became a first of over 950 past columns. Never before, if memory served this aging columnist well, had a...

Angelkeep Journals: Angelkeep shot a yellow hammer

After spending a winter season with the rare opportunity to continually shoot yellow hammers at Angelkeep, it made little difference — when...

Pickles and the unfortunate midnight escape

I think my sister’s neighbors think I’m crazy. Or maybe they realize it runs in the family.  Sarah and...

Angelkeep Journals: The March-ing outs and April ins

Nature provides a good bit of ins and outs in the early days of spring. As the month of March goes out,...

March Madness at home: My bride schools me in sports 

My daily average iPhone screen time was down 47% last week compared to the previous week yet there was one app that...

A very brief — relatively speaking — taxing addendum

One might think that 4,235 words are enough. That’s how many you plowed through last Saturday if you were curious or devoted...

Angelkeep Journals: When it’s good to be scarred for life

Today spring arrives. Ernest Hemingway summed up the day long ago: “When spring came, even the false spring, there...