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Peggy Keener: The power of a determined woman
On March 16, 1869, Austin, Minnesota was little more than a hamlet encircling a primitive public square made up of a thicket of scrub oak ...
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Peggy Keener: The sticky pact between PB and me
So, here’s the deal. I love peanut butter. I mean seriously, I really, really do! For starters, it’s always dependably delicious. But more importantly, it ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, September 15, 2023 7:55 pm
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Peggy Keener: Romance behind the steering wheel
Raise your hand if your teenage life was enriched in the yummiest of ways by a good movie at the drive-in theater. Look! All the ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, September 1, 2023 5:01 pm
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Peggy Keener: Queen of the nail biters
It’s midnight. You know you should be asleep … but nothing can stop you from turning the page. You must find out what happens next. ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, August 18, 2023 5:20 pm
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Peggy Keener: The sassyest of sauces
I know. I know. I KNOW! It seems that everything is made in China. We just can’t get away from it. Sorry to tell you, ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, August 4, 2023 5:02 pm
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Peggy Keener: The frigid history of ice
Author’s note: I regret telling you that the 3rd Part of “Out of Darkness, A Light,” mysteriously vanished into such deep impenetrable cyberspace that I ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, July 21, 2023 5:42 pm
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From out of darkness, a light: Part 2
In his first year at the school for blind boys, Louis studied history, grammar, arithmetic and geography, but the subject he loved most was music. ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, July 7, 2023 5:34 pm
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Peggy Keener: From out of darkness, a light
Louis loved watching his father, a saddle maker in their small French village. To him, his father’s assortment of leather and tools were the center ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, June 23, 2023 5:41 pm
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Keener: From Out of Darkness, A Light
Louis loved watching his father, a saddle maker in their small French village. To him, his father’s assortment of leather and tools were the center ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, June 9, 2023 2:00 pm
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Peggy Keener: Words of wisdom
Do you realize that we have within each of us the capacity to make a difference? Indeed, we always, always have this never ending ability, ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, May 26, 2023 5:26 pm
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Peggy Keener: Passage to India
In 1988, when our daughter, Erin, was a student at Oxford University in England, she was given a fellowship to study for a year anywhere ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, May 12, 2023 6:38 pm
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Annie Lane: The day our sainted mother crumbled
My mother was ferociously fertile. Her fecundity was so powerful, all it took for her to get pregnant was to hear dad’s car pull into ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, April 28, 2023 6:06 pm
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Peggy Keener: When the arrow flew from cupid’s bow
There I was doing it again, staring for the umpteenth time. My eyes couldn’t stop roving his way as he always—mystifyingly always!—listened attentively up there ...
by Peggy Keener, Friday, April 14, 2023 8:19 pm
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Peggy Keener: The regal eagle, our national symbol
From my home on Turtle Creek, I regularly see bald eagles. They never cease to excite me unlike, say, crows or robins. It’s because eagles ...
by Peggy Keener, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:24 pm
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Peggy Keener: Does what bugs me, bug you?
So, here it is. I have some things that really rub me raw, vexing me in the most irritating of ways. Maybe it’s just me, ...