Can’t Go Back Home
We didn’t mean to. Try to go home that is. What we were going to do was go see the Grateful Dead cover band Dark Star Orchestra. While it’s true we’d never heard … Read more
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3 Sisters: an 80 Year Bond
Ida Laurina (Lindberg-Anderson) Cipra was born on this day 100 years ago! She was raised in the Rose Hill farming neighborhood northeast of Lindsborg and is buried in the Rose Hill cemetery. All … Read more
Happy Blog Birthday!
On this day, 15 years ago, I began writing this blog, All the Pages (are my days). What a different world. 9/11 was a few months old. Laurina had passed away, but there … Read more
He Was a Good Dog
RIP Sparkle, 2003-2017 This photo is from mid-January. This was his last good, long walk before he died in early February. I love this photo for many reasons. His back is to us, … Read more
Annual Cycling Report 2017
I rode my bike a lot as a kid. It was how we all got around back then. And of course my daily paper route, delivering the Hutchinson News, racked up a lot … Read more
Memories and the Bridge
And now it’s that time of year again. John Lennon, Milton Molander and my mom, Patricia Rodriquez, all gone in a two day period (albeit over a 22 year time frame). Sometimes there … Read more
Greatest Story Ever Told
The most chilling words I’ve ever heard came almost exactly one year ago, a little after midnight on Monday, October 21st, 2014. I was at the emergency room in Lindsborg with my wife … Read more