More photos from the archives

Here are Valerie and Vicki at their Augustana College graduation. Grandma and Grandpa Rogers came, too.

Art Garfunkel's library

Some of us will know who Art Garfunkel is. From the mental_floss Blogs:
Every now and then I stumble upon something online that just blows me away.... Anyway, today I happened upon something ever so slightly more elevated, but just as mind-blowing. On Art Garfukel's website, one can browse the titles of EVERY book he's read since – strapped in? – JUNE OF 1968!!!! You simply have to see this to believe it.

I was fascinated to learn, for instance, that in 1969 alone, Art read over 20 books, including Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint, Malamud's The Assistant, Jospeh Heller's Catch 22, Voltaire's Candide, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Brontë's Wuthering Heights. And that's just the beginning of '69! And don't forget that 1969 was a year the famous duo was on tour in the wake of the success of "The Sound of Silence."

I guess what boggles the mind is not only that he had so much down time to consume books of some heft, but that he kept track! Who remembers what I read 30 years ago?!

For more fun, check out Art's "Favorite Books," too!

American Thinker: Will the Next Attack Get our Attention?

Here's a very interesting article:

What will our politics look like the day after the next time jihad comes home to America?

Ever since September 11, 2001 political leaders of every stripe have been telling us that another catastrophic attack is inevitable. Consensus regarding terrorism begins and ends with the cliché "when not if."

Our leaders speak as if they can avoid responsibility for the next attack by predicting it. They don't seem aware that a grieving and enraged public isn't likely to get much satisfaction from a chorus of "I told you so."

The rest at http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/will_the_next_attack_get_our_a.html

Here are a couple more photos from 1971. Mom got her masters degree.

Just testing this new blog to see if I can get it to work. Nothing much new here. We haven't had nearly as much snow as northern NM and Colorado have gotten the past couple of weeks. Jim is doing fine, except every time he stands up from sitting down, he has to go to the bathroom. Making slow progress with the incontinence side effect of his surgery. (Doctors say it takes 9 months to a year to regain bladder control.) Doctor says his surgery was successful in removing all cancer. Will have to check his PSA every 3 months to make sure.
Vicki

Vern's first car

Started scanning old slides. Here's my first car - 1967 Chev Impala. I remember Dad saying we'd never have our own cars until we were on our own financially. With Dick's help, this happened between my freshman and sophmore years of college. I remember writing my first huge check for this beauty - for $1,111.15! This would have been the summer of 1971.

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