Mike Keeler
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
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: Back in Daylight Spending Time
As we move into Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is...
Woollies Are On The Move Again . . .
On a recent walk with Asa the Pandemic Pup, we noticed the woollies are on the move again.This time of year, armies of black-and-brown-banded...
MIKE KEELER: Here’s A Little Challenge For You
Look down and search on the ground for a stone. A very specific stone. It needs to be almost completely flat, like the kind...
MIKE KEELER: This Goal Was For You, Madame Secretary
She was born Marie Jana Korbelova, in 1937, in a troubled place known at the time as Czechoslovakia. When she was just a year...
MIKE KEELER: Happy Lupercus . . . er, Valentines Day!
Remember the good old days, when we’d get drunk, slaughter wild animals, butcher them into strips, dip the thongs in blood and run through...
MIKE KEELER: Rats, Oxen and Tigers – Oh My!
Well this all makes sense…2020 was a year unlike any other. The world shut down, we all went home, and had to figure out...
MIKE KEELER: Its The Dead of Winter – Time For A Real Spicy Tale
One day long ago on an island off the coast of India, someone noticed that when they cut down a certain type of tree,...