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A Morning Walk Along Collumbus Avenue by Garrison Keillor


(My World   April 18, 2024)
I want to tell the parents on Columbus Avenue, 'Take that kid on a trip alone with you to the Grand Canyon or Greenland or some other stunning spot; the privilege will see that kid through many hard times.'…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging • Relationships


My Plan for Today and April and May by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 21, 2024)
People love people who have good stories and there is no good story without trouble so get into trouble while you're still young and have time to climb out of the ditch…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Inspiration • Memories • Optimal Aging


Mature Man Available for Speaking, Easy Terms by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 14, 2024)
I am one of America's few remaining octogenarian stand-up comics, still able to stand for up to two hours, even three, and in the current comedy crop, I am a classicist…
Topics: Communication • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wisdom


Flaoting Down the Canyon Through the Rapids by Garrison Keillor


(My World   February 29, 2024)
I accept change, even some changes that pain me. In that respect, life is not unlike rafting through fhe Grand Canyon with calm pools between the boiling rapids…
Topics: Change • Character, Integrity • Choices and Decision Making • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Humor • Learning • Lifestyle, General • Optimal Aging • Trends


Look Around, I Get the Drift by Garrison Keillor


(My World   December 14, 2023)
I still feel loved. I tried to feel abandoned so I could be an important poet but it didn't work. LAUGHTER…
Topics: Attitudes • Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography) • Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Writing


Epictetus on Fifth Avenue, a Week Ago by Garrison Keillor


(My World   November 30, 2023)
Epictetus said the way to happiness is to not worry about things beyond your power to control, which includes this taxi ride, totalitarianism, the cost of tickets to 'Tannhäuser,' and other things that begin with T…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging • Stress • Wisdom


Thank Goodness for Minnesota by Garrison Keillor


(My World   November 23, 2023)
To be a leading producer of stupid misshapen birds who panic easily is not a distinction to be craved, but Somebody Has To Do The Work, and so Minnesota produces a billion turkeys a year so that America can feel gratitude…
Topics: Holidays • Holiday Season • Humor • Lifestyle, General • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving


All I Know is What She Tells Me by Garrison Keillor


(My World   September 28, 2023)
I get the news from my wife, who sits reading the paper across the breakfast table from me and tells me what I need to know, ignoring much of page 1…
Topics: Humor • News • Politics • Relationships • Writing


The Gift of Helen Story, Remembered by Garrison Keillor


(My World   September 14, 2023)
Somehow the ridiculous missteps of my life lead to this day in September, the back-to-school month, and in my heart I am still walking into the old high school, anxious to do well in Lyle Bradley's biology and Helen Story's English class…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Contemplation, Insight • Coping • Education • Humor • Learning • Memories • Optimal Aging • Tribute, Testimony


The Art of Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor


(My World   July 27, 2023)
The pleasure of moving is the excavation of the past. I open a box and here's a photo of my fifth-grade class, the eager neatly-combed-and-dressed boy with glasses is me. I am still that eager boy, heavier but anxious to do well…
Topics: Change • Contemplation, Insight • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


O Fabulous Day! Callooh! Callay! by Garrison Keillor


(My World   June 1, 2023)
Stupidity has given me sympathy for other knuckleheads and also admiration for the beautiful competence of American medicine, which has extended my life dramatically, making it possible for me to beat myself up for my mistakes and not just take up space.
Topics: Attitudes • Circumstances, Life Events • Civility • Current Events, News • Humor • News • Optimal Aging • Politics • Relationships


What We Don't Know We Must Invent by Garrison Keillor


(My World   May 18, 2023)
We were a happy family that kept many secrets and how does one pry open those locked doors?…
Topics: Family • Humor • Memories


The Beauty of Being a Guy by Garrison Keillor


(My World   May 4, 2023)
This week of struggling with the knee brace has changed my life forever. I used to want to be hip and cool and now I just want to be capable. . . . So this week I discovered I can be a guy.…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Coping • Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


The Old Man's Winter Weekend by Garrison Keillor


(My World   March 9, 2023)
Omaha is a well-kept city with a handsome classic downtown and I ate lunch in a downtown café a few tables away from a long table with six middle-aged guys around it and I loved listening to them talk…
Topics: Contemplation, Insight • Humor • Memories • Travel


Squeezing Good Out of Bad by James N. Watkins


(My World   January 20, 2023)
Yikes! It’s hard to believe that Squeezing Good Out of Bad is sixteen years old…
Topics: Advice, Guidance & Mentoring • Attitudes • Choices and Decision Making • Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Humor • Optimal Aging


A Big Event and Then a Major Accouncement by Garrison Keillor


(My World   August 4, 2022)
I feel I should go to Iowa this week and meet the donor of the heart valve I'm about to get and express my gratitude…
Topics: Gratitute • Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Optimal Aging • Wellness


Listen to the Lonesome Whistle Blow, etc. by Garrison Keillor


(My World   July 29, 2022)
I am in the process of packing up and leaving Minnesota where I’ve lived for most of eighty years, because…
Topics: Change • Friends & Neighbnors • Humor • Memories


Happy 70th Birthday to Me! by James N. Watkins


(My World   February 18, 2022)
I prefer to think of it as 30 plus 40 years of experience…
Topics: Hopes & Dreams • Humor • Memories • Optimal Aging


Thoughts About Toothpaste and Patriotism by Garrison Keillor


(My World   February 11, 2022)
I am at an age when one is grateful for every day…
Topics: Comfort & Consolation • Contemplation, Insight • Contentment, Satsifaction • Friends & Neighbnors • Humor • Patriotism


Dealing with the Cards You're Dealt by Greg Asimakoupoulos


(Rhymes & Reasons   August 25, 2018)
Life is more than just a game…
Topics: Circumstances, Life Events • Coping • Humor • Metaphors, Life Lessons