The calendar says January 31st but if you walked into our living room right now, this is what you would see. Our Christmas tree is still up in all its nine-foot splendor, and it actually won’t be until tomorrow- February 1st, Super Bowl Sunday- that it finally comes down. It would be handy to report
My last word on my trip to Decorah is to say how wonderful it was to experience a couple of instances of profound silence - and to realize how uncommon it is for me to enjoy that kind of silence in the course of my normal, day-to-day existence. Once upon a time, I went out
One of the reasons I slipped over to Decorah when I did is that I wanted to connect with two young friends of ours who are both freshmen at Luther, my alma mater. Eric Ripley is a talented trombonist whose dad, Jim Ripley, is chairman of the music department at Carthage- and somehow I remember
One of the highlights of my trip to Decorah, Iowa was seeing Matt and Randi’s beautiful house in the country, which is a sight to behold. And when I say that it’s “in the country,” I mean that it’s almost in Canada. You leave the outskirts of Decorah and drive and drive just to get
I am back from my little trip to Decorah, with a lot to write about. . . but I’ll start with the fun I had right before my departure Sunday morning. It was a special youth service with some of the young people of the congregation providing the vast majority of the special music of
This is my nephew Kaj, and one of the great pleasures of my recent trip to Decorah was in being reminded all over again of what a special little guy he is. He is friendly, fun- loving, eternally positive, thoughtful, kind-hearted, and a tireless bundle of energy. And after all that you might be inclined
I love days like Friday the 23rd - packed to the gills and fully satisfying if a little bit crazy as well. (I shouldn’t blog about them either because one of my siblings typically responds with a 3000-word e-mail exhorting me to slow down, scale down, etc. And of course, they have a point.) Maybe
I’ve been signing on at WGTD every morning this week, which means covering one of the liveliest shifts in the broadcast day - NPR’s Morning Edition. It means pulling news stories off of the Associated Press wire, writing other original stories, and then jumping in all morning long with weather breaks and other announcements at
As I was exciting the radio station today, I noticed a piece of paper taped to the front of the vending machine in the front hall - and it turns out to have said “Please do not purchase the crackers and peanut butter. They have been put on a nationwide recall list.’ Two things struck
This is one of those stories that will mean diddley-squat (sp?) to any of you who aren’t opera fans - but it does contain a newsworthy confession from me, so keep reading. I blog quite frequently about the High Definition simulcasts which are broadcast from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House to movie theaters
