Rambling Josh

A few days ago, my friend and colleague, Dr.

Over the Labor Day weekend, my wife and I ventured north to Upstate North Dakota to celebrate a few birthdays and hang out with family.

Most of us probably have a thing or two that we’ve kind of always wanted to do before our cereal bowl full of life gets spilt or soggy.

Last week we ventured east to the Twin Cities Irish Fest, held each year on Harriet Island in St.

I’d been dreading this day for five years…dreading the day I would have to return to that drab, square, two-tone building.

After a courageous battle with old age, my father-in-law, Bernie Lesnar, died recently, and my wife would like to share a few of her thoughts and memories about her dad with you.

Worth a read on America’s 250th…The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assu…

On June 8th, 1996, Dawn hitched her wagon to this donkey.

When I was a wee lad, sometime around the 77th year of the last century, my dad got a job at the grain elevator in Palermo.

The great-grandson of the Magic 8-Ball, the Google Machine, tells me that “mayday…mayday…mayday”, the international distress signal used by aircraft and ships to indicate imminent danger to life, originated from a phonetical pronunciation of the French ph…

There’s a man that I’ve chanced to see a few times over the past year or so standing on the northwest corner of 5th Avenue and Main Street in Rapid City holding a homemade sign, smiling kindly, and waving at the passing cars.

I recently read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl” by Timothy Egan.

We all play a part, or I suppose, more accurately, we have the opportunity to play a part.

It’s amazing how much you learn about something when it suddenly is vying for a large amount of your attention.

It’s that time of year when college baseball teams, whose home fields reside in northern climates, head south to play in the sunshine.

Google tells me that gaslighting is “an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation where the abuser causes a victim to doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity to gain power.

For as long as the written word has been in existence, there has most likely been writers of those words adopting pen names, or a “nom de plume”, as you would say if you enjoy sounding pretentious and hoity-toity.

Another semester in the books.

For as long as I’ve known what a visit to the dentist for a checkup and cleaning meant, I have religiously flossed my teeth two or three times a day for at least two days prior to my appointment.

If you spend any time on any sort of social media, you have probably noticed the massive influx of AI generated videos parading around.

On November 5th, 1995, our daughter, Sierra McKay, exited the womb at St.

“Indoctrination” is defined as “the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.”

Although the daytime temperatures still feel like summer, the daytime allotment of sunlight, the rotation towards the south of my “morning sun” chair, and the shift in color palette of the trees indicate fall is upon us.

Being a human is a lot of work, especially if you happen to be a human that resides in a human body.

After reading the article “Old News, New Life: Decades of the Tribune Go Digital” in the August 20th edition of the Burke County Tribune, I typed ndarchives.historyarchives.online/home into my computers search engine and fell down a rabbit hole that I did…

Something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new.

A few weeks back my wife and I ventured westward to give musician Sierra Ferrell a listen at the KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner, Montana.