The Lone Prairie Blog

A recently published article in the High Plains Reader (HPR) , “ Why Was North Dakota The ‘COVID Death Capital of the World? ’” includes quotes from me. First off, Laura Simmons, the author, made a good effort to provide a balanced article and I commend her. She was not required to provide an alternative viewpoint in her article about a recently released book, but did so anyway. She was reasonable in both the initial off-the-record and subsequent on-the-record interviews. She

::This post originally ran on my old Medium blog on August 22, 2013. It has been edited and updated.:: We talked about the dangers of...

[This post originally ran on my blog in 2006. It tells of my far-removed experience of September 11th, 2001, which was a train trip from...

::This post originally ran on my old Medium blog post on July 16, 2015. It has been edited for this blog.:: Joe Fox: It wasn’t… personal. Kathleen Kelly: What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you. But it was personal to me. It’s personal to a lot of people. And what’s so wrong with being personal, anyway? Joe Fox: Uh, nothing. Kathleen Kelly: Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal. ( From

::This post originally ran on my old blog on February 8, 2006.:: Whenever someone, myself included, begins a conversation or blog post with a listing of credentials I know what’s coming: a “but.” “You know, I’m a conservative who always votes Republican and consistently attends church and gives generously to religious causes BUT I love to read dirty books.” (Caveat: This, by the way, is not a description of me. Thank you.) A similar technique, much shorter but fulfilling the

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