For fear of what it might do to me, you never paid a compliment, and when other people did, you beat it away from me with a stick. ‘He certainly is looking nice and grown up.’ He’d look a lot nicer if he did something about his skin. ‘That’s wonderful that he got that job.’ […]
Garrison Keillor Quotes
It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out here on the edge of the prairie.
Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.
It saddens Norwegians that America still honors the Italian Columbus, who arrived late in the New World and by accident, who wasn’t even interested in New Worlds but only in spices. Out on a spin in search of curry powder and hot peppers – a man on a voyage to the grocery – he stumbled […]
I am a Democrat, which was nothing I decided for myself but simply the way I was brought up, starting with the idea of Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which is the basis of the simple social compact. Republicans are determined to cripple that same social compact by cutting […]
God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
