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A Fabulous Night in Sonoma
by Garrison Keillor
(April 16, 2026)
how does one respond to insanity?…
Holy Week, the Sacred, the Ridiculous
by Garrison Keillor
(April 9, 2026)
The Times didn’t use dashes to soften the shock for their younger readers but spelled out the word, I think, in order to convey… the tone of the post, which the Times described as 'blistering'…
When is War Just?
by James N. Watkins
(April 3, 2026)
Jim's 2002 reflection is just as appropriate a quarter centruy later…
A Wonderful Week, Thanks
by Garrison Keillor
(April 2, 2026)
It’s Holy Week for us Christians and it’s lovely to be one in New York City where we’re a minority, just as it was in Jesus’ time, and so it makes sense to love your neighbor…
Learning from Experience to Dissolve Situations
by Garrison Keillor
(March 26, 2026)
I went into treatment for naivete and it helped…
What I Knew When I Was 14
by Garrison Keillor
(March 19, 2026)
what interested me more than bird’s-eye accounts of military campaigns and the calculations of major powers were the stories of individuals, and the book that moved me most was Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, which I read when I was 14…
My Sunday Night, Sorry You Missed It
by Garrison Keillor
(March 12, 2026)
Joy is a necessity, especially in dark times…
My Friends, Let Us March into March
by Garrison Keillor
(March 5, 2026)
Life is good, spring is on the way, and we must keep reminding ourselves of this since it isn’t reported in the newspapers…
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
by Garrison Keillor
(February 26, 2026)
Speaking of ice, why is curling an Olympic sport? Sliding a rock on ice? I mean, really?…
Some Problems Turn Out to be GIfts
—Problmes Can be Gifts
by Garrison Keillor
(February 19, 2026)
She didn’t speak in the dream, she simply made everything peaceful…
Unitarians: Thinking it Over
by Garrison Keillor
(February 12, 2026)
Grand Central Station is known as such because it is rather magnificent and stands in Midtown Manhattan. If it were renamed Melania, most New Yorkers would stick with the old name…
A Few Midwestern Maxims to Remember
by Garrison Keillor
(February 5, 2026)
I will always be a Midwesterner at heart. In addition to the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, the two great commandments, I try to live by certain simple principles…
One-Armed Man at the Concert
by Garrison Keillor
(January 29, 2026)
Gratitude is highly appropriate at 83…
The Old Man Hits the Deck
by Garrison Keillor
(January 22, 2026)
I awoke in Carson City, Nevada, with a bump on my head, unable to move my left arm and my face was scratched and my left shin hurt…
Watching the World Fall Apart
by Garrison Keillor
(January 15, 2026)
Disaster strikes and people wake up the next morning and have breakfast…
Watching the Ball Drop
by Garrison Keillor
(January 8, 2026)
A man gets a keener sense of the divine in a church speaking a foreign language…
The Blessing of Christmas Pickles
by Garrison Keillor
(January 1, 2026)
Wwhen I got home I got out a fresh jar of dill pickles, which I find can be good at interrupting the blues if caught in its early stages…
God Has a Plan for the New Year
by James N. Watkins
(January 1, 2026)
Some predictions inspired by the Christmas story…
The Simple Gifts of CHristmas
by Garrison Keillor
(December 25, 2025)
When you’ve heard a string of audiences in dim light sing about the manger and the silent night, your heart is full…
Returning to a Generous Place
by Garrison Keillor
(December 18, 2025)
You can’t argue with luck, you just ride along…