by Forrest Peterson | Nov 28, 2025 | Words on Paper
Bison have the right-of-way across a road through Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN. Many mornings looking out a back window I enjoy seeing the sunrise glinting across rolling fields rimmed by woodlands. Two hundred years ago and more the landscape was all prairie....
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...
by Forrest Peterson | Apr 9, 2025 | Words on Paper
Mob of runners in Goldy’s Run after crossing the finishing line at the 50-yard line of the football stadium on the University of Minnesota campus. Photo credit: Colin Peterson It must be one of the best kept secrets in modern history. In Agatha Christie’s murder...
by Forrest Peterson | Jan 29, 2025 | Words on Paper
In the late 1970s a group of parents in a Twin Cities suburban school district asked the school board to remove two books from the school library. The books included two short stories, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, and The Gnats of Knotty Pine, by Bill Peet. In...
by Forrest Peterson | Jan 22, 2025 | Words on Paper
In these tumultuous times it’s important to take care of your health: Physical therapy for the body, psychological therapy for the mind, and what I call philosophical (or spiritual) therapy for the soul. Addressing the latter, I have been reading (and trying to...
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