Columnists
Peggy Keener: America’s first house … that white one
Toward the end of the War of 1812, when James Madison was president, the British burned “our house” to the ground. The building was already ...
Toward the end of the War of 1812, when James Madison was president, the British burned “our house” to the ground. The building was already ...
Please read to the end. We would agree, without question, that Easter is a deeply religious holiday, but would we also concur that it is, ...
I recently finished reading the book “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson. It is a book all Americans should read; a ...
Test. Who is this? Born in 1927. Wrote over four-thousand newspaper columns and fifteen books, most of which became bestsellers. The columns were read by ...
It seems only fitting that after devoting an entire column to Martha Washington—as I did recently—that I should dedicate equal time to George. After all, ...
Martha Dandridge was a teenager when she accepted a marriage proposal from Daniel Parke Curtis. He was twenty years older than Martha and a life-long ...
As some of you know, in May Glen and I moved to a retirement community in Edina. Here I write a weekly biography of one ...
The time has run out for all truth seekers everywhere to come clean. Here’s the question. When you were a child, did you or did ...
Oh, the wisdom of mothers. Mother’s everywhere! Short, tall, skinny, chubby, wrinkly, not so wrinkly and every Crayola color. They know so much. At least ...
“Come on down!” Over the years these iconic words were ubiquitously shouted by Bob Barker, the host of the longest running game show in American ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a great 19th Century philosopher, once proclaimed, “Jump and the net will appear.” Glen and I took that to heart this ...
A while back I wrote a column about America’s love of the PB and J. Some time later I received a note from my son, ...
Would you find it particularly weird if someone …. a friend, mate, cousin, enemy …. looked at you up close and declared, “I think you’d ...
Who in a million bejillion years would have ever guessed that a pregnancy would be the inspiration for the invention of the pantyhose? But, it’s ...
You’re thinking Rice Krispies, right? And, you would be mistaken. Here’s a hint: In the U.S. on Super Bowl game day, an estimated 11.2 million ...