COUNTRY SCRIBE
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Time warp
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The latest crop of fresh-faced graduates is about to march up for their diplomas. I include college graduates in that crowd because I no longer can tell the difference between high school and college students.
By Eric Bergeson , May 18, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Don't mess with settings 
Just when you get on friendly terms with your computer, some kid sits down at it and starts tapping furiously. If you don't shoo them away in thirty seconds, they will turn the machine into a foreign country so fast that you won't know which end is up.
By Eric Bergeson , May 11, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Salad for supper?
Last week, I spoke to a women's gathering at an area Lutheran church. I arrived good and hungry because those Lutherans can really put on a spread.
By Eric Bergeson , May 04, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Keep calm, carry on
You can take all the security precautions you want, but when a couple of self-destructive lunatics decide to create random, senseless mayhem, they will be as unstoppable as the weather.
By Eric Bergeson , April 27, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Build your own job
Last month, I met for the first time a 23-year-old shirt-tail relative in Los Angeles named Sarah. Fully-employed in a well-paying job she loves, Sarah is the face of our new economy.
By Eric Bergeson , April 19, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Slow melt
Spring is arriving slower than the last day of school in sixth grade. If delayed gratification develops adulthood, most of us in the northland will be grown up and a little gray before the apple trees bloom.
By Eric Bergeson , April 13, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Baseball Inc.
Advanced statistical analysis has changed the game of baseball, and not for the better.
By Eric Bergeson , April 06, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Laptop saved by the Angel of Billings
The trek from California through the mountain states towards home landed me in Billings, Mont., mid-day last week. I stopped for a quick bite to eat, then ordered a souped-up coffee at a local cafe, coffee which was intended to amp me up enough to reach Bismarck.
By Eric Bergeson , March 29, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: California dreamin'
For all the congestion in its populated areas, the bulk of California's land area is wilderness, some of the most spectacular wilderness in the lower forty-eight states.
By Eric Bergeson , March 23, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Tale of Two Vallies
The white flakes blowing across the freeway in California's Central Valley looked like snow, but the temperatures were in the 80s.
By Eric Bergeson , March 16, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Business management
The last day in Arizona featured the best and worst of customer service and business management.
By Eric Bergeson , March 09, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: 4-wheelin in the desert
Last week, a neighbor from back home and a fellow snowbird showed me an adventure I have never before experienced. I was invited to go four-wheelin' on the Arizona desert.
February 23, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Home for a blizzard
Snowbird luck: I flew back from Arizona to Minnesota for an important meeting only to get snowed in and miss the meeting which suddenly didn't seem important at all!
February 16, 2013
THE COUNTRY SCRIBE: Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl rendered the usually crowded freeways of Phoenix, AZ as quiet as I-29 during a blizzard. Even Christmas can't command such a complete shutdown of the American automobile as the Super Bowl.
By Eric Bergeson , February 09, 2013
COUNTRY SCRIBE: Waiting for another Frank Lloyd Wright
One quibble I have with recent decades is the almost complete lack of imaginative and thoughtful architecture. Most homes are dull, utilitarian boxes. The only question left for debate during construction is how big each boxy room will be, and maybe the color of the carpet.
By Eric Bergeson , February 02, 2013
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