Month: September 2024

“How’s your day goin’?” the young woman tending the cash register in the Linton convenience store yesterday afternoon asked me as I laid my ice cream bar on the counter and reached for my wallet. “I need some ice cream,” I replied, handing her some cash. “That wasn’t what I asked you,” she said, somewhat … Continue reading Another One Of The Best Days Of My Life

Sometime in the distant past, when David Strauss and I were managing the campaigns of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, I received a note from David with those words. They struck home. I went looking for their source. I found the actual quote, ironically, from President Calvin Coolidge, who said this: “Nothing in this world … Continue reading “Persistence Alone Is Omnipotent”