Here are my thoughts on reading The Greatest Generation (I apologise in advance for the verbosity):Over sixteen million American men and women served their country during the second world war and estimates from the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration indicate that just over one ...
In June 2006, I was in Montana on a bluff overlooking a grove of conifers alongside the west Boulder River, which was close to flood stage because of the heavy snowpack runoff.As I stood there a small herd of elk cows—mothers—emerged from the tree line with their new calves. They paused to look a...
Ron Olson, my fellow Mayo board member and the first to know, called on a Saturday evening to get a report and I said, “Best I’ve felt in a long while.” Sunday morning I awoke feeling “fluie,” an expression favored by Meredith’s doctor father at the onset of flu. By that evening it went from onse...