Mike Keeler
MIKE FEELER: A Genius in 236 Words
OK aspiring writers, this one’s easy. Maybe too easy.Your assignment today is to write a story of only about 1500 words. But there’s a catch: all the words in your...
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler,...
MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH
Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth...
MIKE KEELER: The Amazing Thing . . .
This past week’s solar eclipse up in the great north woods was pretty amazing, And...
MIKE KEELER: Spring 1774: Intolerable
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key bridge this past week,...
MIKE KEELER: The Letters, the Leak, and Liberty
250 years ago this month, Boston was on the boil.It was a result of events going back much further, all the way to 1603....
MIKE KEELER: Forget Necessity – The FATHER of Invention is Desperation.
Here's an example. In 1922, in the little German village of Deisenhofen, a retired railroad worker named Franz Xaver Kugler opened an inn and...
Mike Keeler: One Thing You Probably Didn’t Know About Summer . . .
For many folks the beginning of summer means that it’s time to hop in the car, drive out to the park, and fire up...
MIKE KEELER: All Hail The 50,000!
That’s a very rough estimate of American colonial soldiers who were killed, died from disease, or died as prisoners of war, in the struggle...
MIKE KEELER: 52 Trees – No more, No Less
Driving through town today, all the yards were in full bloom and everybody looks like they are in 'spruce it all up in time...
MIKE KEELER: No No No No No! (Or as they say in Spanish, ¡NO!)
It's Friday, the end of the week, so maybe you're thinking you can let yourself go a little bit, and you can drive through...