Laboring

Work should never feel like work. To pay my way through college, I labored long summer hours for a moving company owned by my next door neighbor. It was the dirtiest, hottest, most physically challenging work I’ve ever done (far more difficult than completing a sprint triathlon). For $6.25 an hour I worked 70 hour [...]

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Must Hear

Silversun Pickups “Lazy Eye”

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Random Thoughts (Again)

Games We Played  When I ran across this list of childhood games – adjusted for those of us now crossing over into adulthood – I couldn’t resist posting them here: 1. Sag, you’re It. 2. Hide and go pee. 3. Twenty questions shouted into your good ear. 4. Kick the bucket 5. Red Rover, Red Rover, [...]

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Sunsets

New Ulm, Minnesota Aug. 25, 2007

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Tim Pawlenty Pays a Visit

I’m not ashamed to say that I work for a large corporation. The company makes about $12 billion a year and continues to grow. Its world headquarters sits right here in Minneapolis, about 13 miles from my home. The company employs 38,000 people around the world and its products enhance or save the life of [...]

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Hardball Host Chris Matthews on Presidential Candidates

Chris Matthews, host of CNBC’s “Hardball” program, may not be anyone’s favorite political pundit, but as a guest on “The Tonight Show,” Aug. 22, he explained in under five minutes his views on both Republican and Democrat options for president as well as what’s wrong with Bush and his love affair with the Iraq War. Matthew’s [...]

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Women of Television

There are three actresses who can’t be ignored on television. I admire them for their body of work (cough) and depth of their abilities. First, Kyra Sedgwick. As star of “The Closer,” it’s great to watch a female detective solve crimes again. Not since Angie Dickinson has a female cop really captivated TV audiences. I [...]

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Mo’ Sweat

I sweat. There. I admit it. I’m not a heavy sweater (thank God). A little anti-perspirant/deoderant every morning under the arms and I smell like a tulip all day. Not so for lots of folks.  Take Kevin James for example (co-star of the recently released movie, “I Now Prounounce You Chuck and Larry.” That man [...]

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Minnesota State Fair

The Great Minnesota Get Together starts on Thursday and runs through Sept. 3. This year I’ll find myself at the fair. Last time I strolled the Fairgrounds along Snelling Avenue in St. Paul was 2005 and my head wasn’t in the game, so to speak. I’ve always liked a good fair. The sights and sounds [...]

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Plenty of Pawlenty

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s approval rating has skyrocketed recently. Why? In the aftermath of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13 people, his face, name and voice have saturated the media. The Republican, now twice elected as governor, has stepped up, admitting some of his own short-sighted thinking about passing legislation that would [...]

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