Opinion
Peggy Keener: High tech meets the dinner table
It is 1953, one week after Thanksgiving. Panic has set in at the Swanson Food Company. This is ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: How’s this for an opener?
It’s the 1950s. You’re holding a can with a key soldered to its underside. With your strongest fingernail, ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: The gentle woman who quietly roared
After a failed five-year marriage, this First Lady worked as a fashion coordinator in a local Grand Rapids ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: Wisdom from our elders
From time to time I find myself reviving the things we learned as children. These important lessons came ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: Oh Words, wonderful words
How utterly amazing is the word. When spoken it is intangible as we cannot hold it in our ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: Eating with wild abandon
Where has my brain been? Here I’ve been spending hard earned dollars on super market meat when all ...
RSS General
Peggy Keener: Son of the seventh sister
He was born in 1893 into a peasant family whose ancestors had lived in the area for more ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: The holiday treat that never ever retreats
I could have become emotional, you know, lamenting the pesky social restructuring of the holidays this past year. ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: Wonky holiday traditions
If you think everyone in the world celebrates Christmas like we Americans do, think again. There are umpteen ...
Opinion
Almost authentic, but not quite
As we here in America wait seemingly forever for a white bearded chub of a man in a ...
Columnists
Peggy Keener: Our turkey day propugnaculum
Thanksgiving will be different this year. Actually it will be unlike any year we’ve ever known. The reason—we ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: Ocean cruising in Austin, Minnesota
I grew up believing the world had three oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and East Side Lake Ocean. ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: A knotty kind of a problem
I, a semi risk taker, have just done something gutsy. After prolonged anguish in which I weighed my ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: A sugar shackled life
There are people in this world whose contributions have raised our enjoyment of life to undreamed of heights. ...
Opinion
Peggy Keener: History is as history does
I have tried my darnedest to avoid mentioning COVID in any of my columns. Tried, that is, until ...