Many years ago, I attended a Waite Park Chamber event hosted by MinnWest Bank. The speaker was Jill with Express Employment Professionals. Her opening statement concluded that, on average, we will each have three careers and 27 jobs in our lifetime. At first, it sounded like a bit much, but then I started counting. My […]
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Comments Off on March 27, 2026 Today is the first day of spring. Signs of spring have not been abundant. I have not seen a robin yet, nor an earth worm. The ice is still on all the lakes around St. John’s. But hope springs eternal. My drafting career ended in the early seventies. The second of my five careers was […]
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Comments Off on March 20, 2026 Tuesday is Saint Patrick’s Day. The song “Oh Danny Boy” is a very popular Irish song. Malachy McCourt wrote a book titled “Danny Boy. “The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad”. The tune, known as the “Londonderry Air”, originated in the northern most county of Ireland. The story goes that sometime in the 1600s, Rory Dall O’Cahan, a […]
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Comments Off on March 13, 2026 In the spring of 2000, I visited MPR’s classical music station, KWRV 91.9, in Sun Valley, Idaho for the first time. When I made my second trip in the fall of 2000, I decided to drive to Bozeman, Montana and visit my Uncle Bill and Aunt Maggie. Uncle Bill was my wife Marcia’s mother’s half- brother. […]
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