Tag: public radio
member name: Greg Schiller
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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September 13, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
For years we have been subject to the paranoid delusions of 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists and predictably on the fifth the anniversary of that tragic event, a rash of conspiracy theory articles have been published . . .
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October 22, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
Morning is feeding time for traffic in Australia. With the fresh light of a rising sun behind them, vehicles in downtown Sydney prowl for pedestrians. One rarely sees the old, the young or the weak . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
The forecast says, "cold with snow", it's the sort of . . .
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June 22, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
How do you balance the family budget?
I suspect you do it the same as everyone else. After the supper dishes are cleared, you sit calmly down at the dining room table and discuss. For tools . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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November 22, 2006 11:48 AM EST --
Motivating Roger to work was Sandy’s first project; not working was Roger's career.
Roger was a scruffy fixture in City Hall who had unofficially assigned himself the task of roaming the barrens . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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November 16, 2006 07:47 PM EST --
Last spring I rented a mustang convertible to retrace the winding coastal track where I had hitch-hiked 40 years ago. Driving toward Big Sur through a cold coastal fog, . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
I pryed open my wallet and bought a new camera this weekend. To try it out my wife and I traveled to Mantorville Minnesota. For those not familiar with the state, Mantorville . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
Welcome to Northfield Minnesota, for years my hometown and current home to my favorite pub.
The town motto of Northfield is: Colleges, Cows and Contentment.
So it . . .
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October 06, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
Good Morning!
This is the view out my front door. It once was a golf course, but they shut it down when I moved in. For good reason, I am the kind of golfer who . . .
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December 08, 2008 12:48 PM EST --
We all have our morning rituals. Mine is waking up well before sunrise and padding into my home office to fire up the computer. While it struggles from slumber, I make coffee and argue with the cat. . . .
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November 11, 2006 09:24 AM EST --
A little more than twenty years ago Democratic Congressman Martin Sabo hosted a cramped town hall meeting at the Longfellow Community Center in South Minneapolis. During the question and answer . . .
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November 24, 2006 08:07 AM EST --
I have just heard that technology has gone a long way to making me whole again. A tiny chip about the size of a grain of sand may, if all goes as expected, solve my aversion to shopping.
Today is THE . . .
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December 15, 2006 11:57 AM EST --
Like so many Americans, I have fallen in and out of love with cars. I have experienced every emotion with cars from the beaming pride of a new purchase to the ache of junking an old friend. . . .
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August 25, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
I'm on the outs with my cousin Dave.
I fed his steak to the coyote who haunts the woods where our family holds it summer barbecues. Now Dave is mad at me. He says dieting has turned . . .
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September 08, 2008 01:37 PM EDT --
Finally! The RNC is over!
Today I can drive I35E through downtown Saint Paul and don't have to take the long way around. Though I must say, I enjoyed the longer route, a leisurely . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
Obama wants change. McCain wants change. Everyone wants change but me.
It is not so much that I am stuck in the what-is as I am deeply suspicion of the angst that drives - what-if.
The truth is . . .
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October 13, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
Greetings from Good Ol' Days Resort in Nisswa Minnesota!
My wife and I cycle through our usual squabbles and one of the more predictable flare ups is what to do on vacation. For her, . . .
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