by the Night Writer
I can’t say how it is that my mental juke box goes about selecting a song to be in my head when I wake up in the morning, but invariably I have one. Sometimes it’s a song I heard the day before, so that’s easy to explain, but most of the time [...]
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The signs are that this bitter winter is drawing to a close. Not that the hard days didn’t have some beauty to them. I took these photos over the last couple of weeks with my cell phone camera as I was leaving work. I can’t seem to hold that camera steady, but [...]
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I went on to Amazon a little while ago to check something or other and under the “Related to Items You’ve Viewed” heading was a book I’ve never read: After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters. Ok, the title sounds right up my alley (and perhaps very close in topic to the [...]
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The official plein air artist of The Night Writer blog, Sharell at Zumbro Falls Impressionist, came across a curious operation while seeking inspiration for a painting (the painting and full story here):
One November Saturday I came down the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary path to find 4 mini-vans parked in a circle and [...]
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And now, as the man said, time for something completely different.
There were those weekends in my college days when my work and social schedule resulted in me essentially being up all night and trying to sleep all day. Those days are what I thought of when I first heard anyone talk [...]
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How old do you feel?
How old would you feel if I told you it has been a little more than 14 years since the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip (December 31, 1995) appeared? Well, before you fall out of your rocking chair you might want to check out this link [...]
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The last of my grandparents, my maternal grandmother, is fading away. I don’t know if she will last until I, too, become a grandparent later this summer. Her tiny frame shrinks a little more each day, her grasp on time and place as shaky as her fingers trying to take hold of [...]
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I’ve been a bit disconnected from the blogosphere the last couple of weeks and haven’t posted much here. Anyone who cares or was paying attention might assume I’ve been working hard on my book and on editing Tiger Lilly’s book. That would be a wonderful excuse if it were true but the [...]
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Earlier this week a group of ruffians high-jacked a comment thread at another blog with Monty Python and the Holy Grail references completely unrelated to the topic (perhaps the group thought it was time for something completely different). While I think any time is always a good time for a Monty Python [...]
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It may be hard to believe, but I initially didn’t like to read when I was a boy. I don’t know why, but it just didn’t catch my fancy despite encouragement by my mother and grandfather. And then one day — I think in the third grade — I checked a book [...]
