by Forrest Peterson | Dec 4, 2025 | Words on Paper
Bookshelves at A Novel Idea Book Shop in the Middle Fork Café, Willmar, MN. Inset: Miss Belinda Blurb, fictional namesake of the blurbing tradition in the publishing industry. I will be signing books at Middle Fork Café 10 am-noon Saturday, Dec. 6. With three to four...
by Forrest Peterson | Nov 20, 2025 | Words on Paper
Fishing at the confluence of the Minnesota River (left) and Yellow Medicine River. Superimpose a map of major rivers in the U.S. over a map showing states, colored red or blue according to election results. The Mississippi begins in northern Minnesota (blue), flows...
by Forrest Peterson | Nov 14, 2025 | Words on Paper
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. – Wikipedia On clear nighttime early evenings, I sometimes sit outside gazing up at the stars and planets, the ones still visible through the light from a nearby small city. If you are patient enough, you are likely to see satellites,...
by Forrest Peterson | Sep 12, 2025 | Words on Paper
With a road trip taking my time this week, I am returning to the initial “Words on Paper” series with this unpublished post, No. 18 drafted earlier this year, with some updates. Okay, so about that earlier pledge to refrain from using ChatGPT to help write these...
by Forrest Peterson | Jul 17, 2025 | Words on Paper
Long ago as a young adult I drove a semi-truck for a few years. Teamsters Union, good pay, hard work – at least physically – it lacked intellectual challenge causing some existential discomfort. While I drove a truck and loaded freight, ideas and insights often...
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