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Daylight Savings Time Ends Tonight!
by Aliza Chasan / CBS News
(November 1, 2025)
Cant 'remember whether the cock goes forward or back? Here's the scoop as Daylight Savings Time ends…
How Many Truckloads Does It Take?
by Garrison Keillor
(October 30, 2025)
The country has come to accept insults twenty times more gigantic than ever before…
Winter Comes to Minnesota, One Hopes
by Garrison Keillor
(October 23, 2025)
And that’s why some of us are going hunting for terrorist turkeys that’ve been reported in the suburbs. Rogue turke…s
LIfe Goes On, We Watch the Lampposts Passing
by Garrison Keillor
(October 16, 2025)
New York is a tolerant place and if you went to Trader Joe;s in your pajamas, people would figure there's a reason …
A Word of Adice from Yout Elder
by Garrison Keillor
(October 9, 2025)
Now everybody's son and stepdaughter are lining up to get a degree in Stand-Up. Yes, you're right, it's a B.S. and that's all you need nowadays, and so I've had to take up teaching…
A Quite Weekend on the Upper West Side
by Garrison Keillor
(October 2, 2025)
Old age is the age of gratitude and I have more to be grateful for than you kids do…
September, Wishing I Had a Pronto Pup
by Garrison Keillor
(September 27, 2025)
I feel a little sad and sort of disenfranchised in September heading for October and for the fourth year in a row having missed the Minnesota State Fair and not eaten Pronto Pups or cheese curds or hot buttered corn on the co…
Balcony at Night, Looking at Manhattan
by Garrison Keillor
(September 20, 2025)
It’s a beautiful fall and the city feels optimistic, let people in Wichita imagine it as a brutal battleground and rat-infested garbage dump, the residents know different.
Suddenly Last Tuesday a Bright Light Show
by Garrison Keillor
(September 4, 2025)
There has never been a Cabinet meeting like it, I daresay, and the entire three hours is on YouTube for all to see over and ove….
A Night in Bed with Her and Me
by Garrison Keillor
(August 28, 2025)
The other night I lay awake for a while trying to think of the first name of the Romney who ran for president against Obam….
A Bulletin from Downtown St. Paul
by Garrison Keillor
(August 21, 2025)
Never before had an author shown such bravado as to commit a felony as a way of getting published.…
One Favor, Lord, if You Have a Moemnt
by Garrison Keillor
(August 14, 2025)
I ask a favor of God, that I not die a dumb death. Let me leave in dignity, please…
Remembering You, but Not the Rest of It
by Garrison Keillor
(August 7, 2025)
It's a night I’ll remember for the rest of my life (I'm 83) whereas vast acres of my middle and elder years are a blank to me, which worries my beloved…
How it All Happened, Thank Goodness!
by Garrison Keillor
(July 31, 2025)
I was a very quiet boy, which back then people thought indicated a high IQ but I knew better…
What We Learn from Air Travel
by Garrison Keillor
(July 24, 2025)
Let God and my travel agent Camille find a way. I closed my eyes. There is no place like home…
Let's Get Together, People, and Hold Hands
by Garrison Keillor
(July 17, 2025)
Maybe people are put off by the rockets and bombs, I don’t know. But I believe America needs an anthem. So I’ve rewritten i….
Where's My Guitar, Darling?
by Garrison Keillor
(July 10, 2025)
I associate the name Delta with the Mississippi Delta blues and Robert Johnson who sold his soul to the devil to gain mastery of the blues guitar…
Bravo, Democracy, Up with the Underdog!
by Garrison Keillor
(July 3, 2025)
This is the beauty of democracy, it’s an art and not a science, and sometimes it speaks clearly…
An Evening in the Berkshires
by Garrison Keillor
(June 26, 2025)
I did a show at Tanglewood in the Berkshires Saturday night, a big crowd on a beautiful day, and just before intermission someone told me that we had gone to war against Iran …
The Link Between Language and Gunshots
by Garrison Keillor
(June 23, 2025)
Fear is the favored force of evil, causing public officials to feel targeted, to see shadows in the hall, imagine the glint of gun barrels, back away from their principles.…