We stood at the window, my love and I, and heard the fireworks whomping and racketing away over Times Square at precisely midnight last Wednesday, as 2026 arrived and like many people my age…
Posts published in “Garrison Keillor”
The Christmas blues hit me early this year, right around 10 p.m. on the 24th in church. The readings from Scripture were good and we sang Schubert’s beautiful Sanctus and various well-loved carols and…
I flew back to Minnesota just in time for a classic hard Minnesota freeze like the ones of my childhood, when you walk out the door and the cold hits you like a board…
I’m an old man and the ease of email and texting is a marvel to me, more so than to you kids, until I notice the time I spend daily erasing emails and texts…
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…