The phone rang around 8 o?clock last night. I was overjoyed! Without Otto, my nights have been pretty quiet and lonesome. Yay! Someone to talk to and bother. I dove for the phone. ?Mr. or…
Date Archives 2001
a gathering of elders
Virginia comes to my desk daily to check out the word of the day. Mostly we know the words, they aren’t always that spectacular. Yesterday’s word was caucus. “Caucus? I know that one,” Virginia said….
selfish
i am keeping all the words to myself today. sometimes you have to do that. maybe tomorrow they will make sense.
what happened here as the new york sunset disappeared?
jim walsh has spent the past day listening to U2’s “peace on earth.” i’ve had elton john’s “empty garden” on repeat for the past two days. written about another new york tragedy, the death of…
grave silence
New York was a clamorous inferno of pain, confusion and fear, with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the scene in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers. . .
kirk anderson
kirk anderson has been one of my favorite editorial cartoonist, since i discovered him in the onion back when i was in collge. he made the move to the Pioneer Press about 6 years ago…