The Paper Tyger

I miss my dad. He hasn't been gone for long, but I miss him. There was so much activity as we planned the funeral; focusing on logis...

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood... My father, a Nordic force of nature in his own way, departed this earth in a flurry of snow t...

You know the old saying about the course of true love never being smooth? Well, sometimes getting around to like is no easy bargain, either....

The past month has been a blur: the drive west to Minnesota on Christmas Eve, navigating the rabbit's warren that is St Marys Hospital, ...

When I was a small child, Memorial Day meant going to various small cemeteries around southeastern Minnesota and along the Mississippi Rive...

Lottie and Ruthie Dattner Greetings, FOPT (friends of ThePaperTyger) Michele has graciously allowed me the usual 140+ characters t...

Memory is a funny thing. Even the mental lock-boxes that we shove to the far recesses of our minds--for reasons of pain, or pride,...

Horse Christmas party, 12/29/23 LOC Prints and Photographs Division LC-F8-28154 (P&P) Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good ni...

A wall of great quotations as you enter the VICTORY exhibit. " Just do what you do best. " Words of wisdom from the one and on...

It doesn't really matter if we awaken to a cool, grey mist that morning or to azure skies scattered with cottonball clouds. The day stil...