Posts published in “Garrison Keillor”

  I stood around looking at J.D. Salinger stuff last Friday, his old black Royal typewriter, family snapshots, and typewritten letters, at the New York Public Library, and it was a wonder to see. I’m…

  I went to Macy’s on 34th Street last week, my first visit to a classic old-fashioned department store in many years, and took my daughter along so she could see what it is, like…

  I paid a visit to the magnificent state of Colorado last week to commune with the spirit of my great-great-grandfather David Powell who spent some time there in the mid-19th century. He was a…

  Old age is the age of gratitude, when I come to appreciate the beautiful details in life such as Lenny our doorman in New York who says, “Taxi?” as I come across the lobby…

  Watching Zohran Mamdani campaigning before Election Day, smiling, full front teeth visible continuously with only a momentary closure of lips for long periods of time, the friendly expression looking genuine while walking through crowds…

  I’ve been a stranger to TV for decades simply because there was too much else to do and I love my work and also the TV got complicated when streaming replaced the three networks…

  Every October it’s my duty to point out that my hometown, Anoka, Minnesota, is known, at least in Anoka, as the Halloween capital of the world, and it puts on big parades and a…

  Wherever you go in the world, if people ask you where you’re from and you say Minnesota, they say, “It gets cold there, doesn’t it.” When New Yorkers travel to Minneapolis, we don’t say,…

  I am a hard worker and last week I put in a string of 12-hour shifts bent over a laptop and found it exhilarating even though it’s hard on your legs. You get up…