Monthly Archives: April 2023

While staying at the old Birchwood hotel, across Portage Avenue from my teen home of Billingsley Manor (1964-1970), receiving a Jeanne’s Cake to commemorate my birthday.

for drivers leaving the original St. James for Portage la Prairie. Portage Avenue building was the site of the original Jack Andrews Drugstore. I can remember buying fireworks, comics, and turtles there in the late 1950s.

George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-four, forecast many things that have become truths and truisms today. Here are some quotes from that book and others by one of the most unappreciated authors of the twentieth century: The essence of being … Continue reading →

in daily meds, now being cut off by supply-line shortages. It is unconscionable that basic children’s meds are still unavailable for the past two years. About as unconscionable as Republicans prepared to continue to let children and innocent people die … Continue reading →