On this day…

May 28, 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.

30,000 feet and life to go

It’s 3 am and I’m at 30,000 feet on my way to Minnesota to meet with an editor friend of mine about a book project for a memoir that I am working on. My wife is driving a 1000 miles from Denver for the rendezvous. I am listening to my favorite cd set on my […]

Sniglets Blog

Sniglet* Blog Shrennen: Paper or otherwise fallen debris, that appears after revelers at  the St. Patrick’s Day parade. * A Sniglet is a word that should be in the dictionary but isn’t. Sniglets are the brainchild of comedian Rich Hall, who with a little help from his friends, wrote a series of books containing Sniglets […]

Road Tripin: Whitlock Bay Supper Club

There is not much to see or do in the 300 plus miles of open plains in South Dakota. My wife Michele and I were treking from the Twin Cities to Deadwood, South Dakota yesterday and hoping to find those sort of things that make trips like this memorbale. We did come across Paul Bunyan’s […]