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Peggy Keener: The inexplicable Easter Bunny

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, ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, April 5, 2024 5:21 pm

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Peggy Keener: A caste system of a different kind

I recently finished reading the book “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson. It is a book all Americans should read; a ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, March 22, 2024 5:47 pm

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Peggy Keener: Loved by all; a true American gem

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, March 8, 2024 5:10 pm

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Peggy Keener: The truth about those teeth – an abiding mystery

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, ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, February 23, 2024 5:25 pm

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Peggy Keener: The very first and possibly the very best

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, February 9, 2024 5:47 pm

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Peggy Keener: Koda – the epitome of serene grandeur

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 26, 2024 5:11 pm

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Peggy Keener: Benumbed black bear brings big bucks

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 19, 2024 5:57 pm

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Peggy Keener: The very wisest of the wise

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, January 12, 2024 5:31 pm

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Peggy Keener: Universal friend to man and beast

“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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 29, 2023 5:40 pm

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Peggy Keener: Our jump into a welcoming net

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 15, 2023 5:13 pm

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Peggy Keener: Cat tales (tails?) confidential

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, ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, December 1, 2023 5:31 pm

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Peggy Keener: Finding your true eye-dentity

Would you find it particularly weird if someone …. a friend, mate, cousin, enemy …. looked at you up close and declared, “I think you’d ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, November 17, 2023 6:02 pm

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Peggy Keener: Ode to the unlovable garter belt

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, November 3, 2023 5:11 pm

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Peggy Keener: Snap, crackle and crunch

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 ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, October 13, 2023 5:26 pm

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Peggy Keener: The power of a determined woman

On March 16, 1869, Austin, Minnesota was little more than a hamlet encircling a primitive public square made up of a thicket of scrub oak ... Read more

by Peggy Keener, Friday, September 29, 2023 5:04 pm

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