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I’m ambitious about strength training. Regular news stories in the early 2020s reminded me of the vitalness of this. Web research convinced me that 25% of Americans have fitness habits, I wonder how much smaller that percentage is for men over age 50? (A part of me wants to be a voice for this age…

At approx 4:25pm on Saturday July, 13, having just returned home from my part-time job, I turned on my TV to ABC News. It was extraordinary timing because when Trump was holding forth at a rally in Butler PA, Correspondent Rachel Scott had just began to report about the the sounds, assumed to have been…

Weeks before Black Americans’ Freedom Day aka Juneteenth, an idea gurgled up in my imagination, and a question nagged me: what facets of American Blackness don’t we see on-screen?  My idea is to create a regularly airing in-person video conversation show. I imagine something exciting. The very smart and funny shows “Desus and Mero” and…

For a past U.S. president to be under 91 criminal indictments in four jurisdictions was a level of “if there’s smoke there’s fire” too far. Former “The Apprentice” star with its bigoted thoughts, seduced a large shrill minority of the GOP. Without that seduction of the embittered, the GOP, which once declared itself to be…

On May 7th , CNN.com carried a link to this Green Bay, WI story about youth and firearms. “The recent shooting of a student by police outside a school in Mount Horeb has Green Bay district leaders warning families about toy guns.” According to CNN “On Monday, Green Bay school district leaders sent a letter…

CNN reported on April 22 that a Michigan woman, Tracie McMillan, wrote about what a “bonus” it is to be white in the United States; how this helps her. An independent reporter, her book is called “The White Bonus”.  With a dysfunctional, addicted and abusive home, research indicated that her family profited from racial housing…

National Public Radio ran a piece on March 26th about a 20-something Black woman reading “The New York Times” via TikTok, who went viral. Those who find grave news stories depressing, and are turned away welcome this… As a middle-age GenXer who knew the world before the Web and social media came to cultural primacy,…

My 40s began with my making a strategic choice to manage my energy and time in order to refine myself. I was and am driven to maintain certain worldview-oriented skills. A “casualty” of this (to some people’s minds) is me usually ignoring pop culture stories. Becoming no younger, and having misspent too much of my…

I need to process an outburst from a young white male bike mechanic. “You were very difficult to work with”! In the Twin Cities, Scandinavian [the original settlers] aloofness, fear of open emotion, emotional people are a vice. On February 13 I went to Free Wheel Bike so that my commuter cycle could have its…

Authors met on Feb 13 in a cozy space near the rear of Magers & Quinn Bookseller in Uptown. This was in order to mark Black History Month.  Black and Japanese-American authors met in order to mark love, of self, and culture. Twin Cities-based authors and teachers, David Mura (“Turning Japanese,” “We Were Meant to…