Opinion

Peggy Keener: America’s first house … that white one

Toward the end of the War of 1812, when James Madison was president, the British burned “our house” ...

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Peggy Keener: The inexplicable Easter Bunny

Please read to the end. We would agree, without question, that Easter is a deeply religious holiday, but ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: A caste system of a different kind

I recently finished reading the book “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson. It is ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Loved by all; a true American gem

Test. Who is this? Born in 1927. Wrote over four-thousand newspaper columns and fifteen books, most of which ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: The truth about those teeth – an abiding mystery

It seems only fitting that after devoting an entire column to Martha Washington—as I did recently—that I should ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: The very first and possibly the very best

Martha Dandridge was a teenager when she accepted a marriage proposal from Daniel Parke Curtis. He was twenty ...

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Peggy Keener: Koda – the epitome of serene grandeur

As some of you know, in May Glen and I moved to a retirement community in Edina. Here ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Benumbed black bear brings big bucks

The time has run out for all truth seekers everywhere to come clean. Here’s the question. When you ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: The very wisest of the wise

Oh, the wisdom of mothers. Mother’s everywhere! Short, tall, skinny, chubby, wrinkly, not so wrinkly and every Crayola ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Our jump into a welcoming net

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a great 19th Century philosopher, once proclaimed, “Jump and the net will appear.” Glen ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Cat tales (tails?) confidential

A while back I wrote a column about America’s love of the PB and J. Some time later ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Finding your true eye-dentity

Would you find it particularly weird if someone …. a friend, mate, cousin, enemy …. looked at you ...

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Peggy Keener: Ode to the unlovable garter belt

Who in a million bejillion years would have ever guessed that a pregnancy would be the inspiration for ...

Opinion

Peggy Keener: Snap, crackle and crunch

You’re thinking Rice Krispies, right? And, you would be mistaken. Here’s a hint: In the U.S. on Super ...

Opinion

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 ...

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