We’ve been sort of mesmerized by the Winter Olympics and dangerously thin athletes speedskating, one hand behind the back, taking the turns semi-horizontally, and others flying...
About Garrison Keillor
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The secret of my success is longevity
I was a lousy student in Lyle Bradley’s 10th grade biology class and he was wildly generous to give me a B-minus, given my ineptitude at frog dissection and tree identification,...
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Meditation while waiting for coffee to brew
I was in Clearwater Beach, Florida, the morning of the 31st, listening to coffee drip, looking out the picture window at a parking lot, and saw a squirrel sitting on top of a...
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How we raised the dough to go to Florida
Freedom is a beautiful thing when you’re young, allowing kids who know they should be focused on the perils of global warming to instead be fascinated by the troubles of Britney...
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The emergence of blues billionaires
Bruce Springsteen selling his music to Sony for a half-billion dollars has gotten me thinking about my music and what I might get for the songs I wrote when my radio show was...
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Mr Socialist confesses a love of opera
Free enterprise is fascinating, especially for us socialist communists who want to make the world into a dormitory with a cafeteria where on Mondays everyone has mac and cheese...