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It Can Get Really Cold in Minnesota by Garrison Keillor (December 19, 2024)

The cold has drawn us together as mammals. They know that I used to live here and then moved to New York, but they're in a forgiving mood because here I am suffering with them…


The Perils of Pedestrianism Explained by Garrison Keillor (December 12, 2024)

Nonetheless, I like New York. I’m glad to be done with lawn mowing and snow shoveling. We live two blocks from the subway where the downtown train will take me to the main library or Lincoln Center or lunch in the Village…


So What Are We to Do Now? by Garrison Keillor (December 5, 2024)

I enjoy the New York Times and I love it all the more now that I see it has practically no power at all.…


Walking to Church on a Cold Day by Garrison Keillor (November 28, 2024)

We live in troubled times but perhaps there needs to be a time-out from trouble and maybe I'll make it Sunday. Put the worries of this life aside…


Thanks for What? by James N. Watkins (November 22, 2024)

If you find yourself a bit down at Thanksgiving, Jim has some thoughts to put the holiday in perspective. First appeared in 2000..


Thank You for Reading This by Garrison Keillor (November 21, 2024)

So many blessings, and I haven't even mentioned friendship, sunsets, public transportation, Christian hymnody, baseball, hearing aids, the steady thoughtful leadership of my wife, trees, parks, rivers, the prairie, sonnets, Google, and cranberries…


Thanksgiving Turkey Trivia by James N. Watkins (November 15, 2024)

Do you have nothing better to do with your time than to read worthless trivia? Then, you'll be enriched by our educational special report on Melgris Gallopavos…


Happiness and the Price of Groceries by Garrison Keillor (November 7, 2024)

love mac and cheese because I loved grade school back in the Fifties and that’s what Mabel served in the Benson School cafeteria…


What It's All About, I Think by Garrison Keillor (October 31, 2024)

It's a revolt by Middle America against the coasts, old against young, commoners against college, evangelicals against agnostics, McDonald's against pad thai…


My Life Story (Short Version) by Garrison Keillor (October 24, 2024)

I performed at Goshen College and got the audience to sing 'It Is Well with My Soul' and suddenly it was better with my soul than it had been in a long time. I have canoed in the Boundary Waters wilderness and slept on a beach and listened to the loons&he


Waiting for a Cab One Night by Garrison Keillor (October 17, 2024)

It was a dramatic sight, a lone person fallen in the midst of a busy scene in a huge city and you could see the alarm in the faces of the people in the taxi line: there but for the grace of God go I…


Hugging is a Habit in the Apple Capital by Garrison Keillor (October 10, 2024)

Here I am in Wenatchee, Washington, the Apple Capital of the World, on the Columbia River in the Cascades, being clutched to people's bosoms. Apparently they consider me a friend…


A Report on My Trip to Fargo by Garrison Keillor (October 3, 2024)

The people at the airport were having a party out of affection for their uncles and brothers, and that’s a sweet thing. But I saw some ancient vets in wheelchairs who seemed confused by the cheering and a little worried about finding a ride home…


The Great Chicken Conspiracy by Stu Johnson (September 28, 2024)

Getting a new barbecue grill exposed a grocery store conspiracy…


A Fine Night in York Pennsylvanie by Garrison Keillor (September 26, 2024)

Pennsylvania is in a tough spot, as a big swing state. . . whhen the state is called, the side it votes for will figure, 'Well of course, but why such a narrow margin' and the other side will despise them and never buy another Hershey's bar…


My View on Journalism if Your're Interested by Garrison Keillor (September 19, 2024)

My friends, the Washington Post is in Washington to uncover corruption, malfeasance, ineptitude, and outright dishonesty—not to publish photos of Zion National Park and tell me how to spark joy in my life or cover unusual wildlife in rural Iowa…


What Would Jesus Say to a Church Divided by Politics? by James N. Watkins (September 13, 2024)

Jim first posted this in October 2020, but the message remains just as relevant today…


A Little Talk About Close Neighbors by Garrison Keillor (September 12, 2024)

A summer house is for relaxation, it isn't to demonstrate craftsmanship. You are supposed to sit on the porch and read Proust, you are not supposed to create a home that Proust would've envied…


My Most Important Message in Forty Years by James N. Watkins (September 6, 2024)

All my conference keynotes condensed into one essential talk


Flying West for a Look See by Garrison Keillor (September 5, 2024)

I'm nobody who'd be intending to blow up a plane or demand that it fly me to Iran. No, I'd only hijack a plane so I could grab a microphone and lead the passengers in song…