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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…
Back Home to Minnesota
by Garrison Keillor
(December 11, 2025)
I grew up in Minnesota and my parents gave me an easy childhood, since they had come through hard times…
Thinking Ahead to Christmas
by Garrison Keillor
(December 4, 2025)
My dad was dubious about Christmas, the expense, the fuss,, but he yielded to my mother's passion to create one perfect day for her children despite the grief and hardship all around.&hellip'
On the Road Looking for His Story
by Garrison Keillor
(November 27, 2025)
I heard about David when I was a little kid and my aunt Ruth and great-uncle Llewellyn Powell came to our house on many Saturday evenings and told stories about family history, in which David was prominent…
The Story Teller Hits the Road
by Garrison Keillor
(November 20, 2025)
I am off to LaGuardia to go on tour for ten days with my solo stand-up show telling stories and not a single word about the Emperor and His Court of Cronie…
Happy Old Man Looking Over His Shoulder
by Garrison Keillor
(November 13, 2025)
We live in fascinating times. History is being made daily…
It's Waiting for You, Just Go Find It!
by Garrison Keillor
(November 6, 2025)
I've glanced at big-screen TVs in bars and cafés and what I saw was that they make dumb things even dumber but I was stunned by the Dodger-Blue Jays game, the camerawork especially, which makes you feel you're on the field and part of the gam….
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