Tag: public radio
member name: Greg Schiller
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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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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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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 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
I love me wife. She is my partner. She is my best friend. I rely on her for advice, support and solace, but there are times when I don't like her that much.
This may seem a paradox, but . . .
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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 12:06 AM EDT --
My first love was my first car.
Oh, I've had crushes before but never anything close to love -- but that car, that was love.
She wasn't much to look at, just a snot-green . . .
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November 03, 2008 12:06 AM EST --
Last Thursday, I wasted much of the day in quiet desperation.
I started out small, moping over the sinister new howl in my transmission and worked my way up through the hierarchy of daily worries. . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:03 AM EST --
Friday evening at diner, my wife looked up from her plate and said, “Honey, let's go to IKEA tomorrow.”
Her suggestion landed like a bomb just south of the salad bowl, one that ticked while . . .
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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 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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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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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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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 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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November 24, 2008 12:28 PM EST --
I have to be the world's worst copy editor. Not only did I sleep through much of elementary school when the basics of grammar were taught, but I have lousy eyes and tend to read English much . . .
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September 30, 2009 05:41 PM EDT --
Can you hear the seismic thump rolling across the man-caused-global-warming community?
It's a tremor caused by two IPCC chapter editors coming to ground.
For years, skeptics have told the . . .
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