Garrison Keillor is a funny man, but I don’t think he has heard the call of the wild. What do you think?
What truly cheers me up through these dog days of summer is the thought that two old friends of mine are up north on a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and that I am not there with them. I am here, reading the paper, and if I wanted to go to a movie, I could go, and if I wished to use a flush …

In October of 2005 we drove west on an adventure with the boys. In Colorado we drove up in to the Rocky Mountains and spent an afternoon in Estes Park. While the boys hiked around the village I stayed in the car and nursed by “out of joint” foot. I groaned and prayed and gritted my teeth, but while I was there I observed something that struck be as funny. Across the street was a man in a pleated skirt. He had long hair …

Speaking of wild at heart, here is an interesting quote I ran across in my journal the other day: “It is not really a wilderness if there is nothing out there that can eat you.”

In large parts of Mexico they do not stock the bathrooms with toilet paper. This is something you might want to know in case you ever need to go – . to Mexico. If you need to go, bring your own bathroom tissue. I think it would be a good idea if youth groups from America took all the toilet paper they waste vandalizing their youth pastor’s house and donated it to missions. There you would have young people making a contribution to international good will, …

In the “How Embarrassing” Category: Lawn Chairs. Some lawn chairs are better than others. On the way to speak at a camp a couple summers ago I tried out a beach chair. It wasn’t very high-quality. How do I know, you ask? I tested it. I set it down in the isle of the store and sat down on it. Immediately it collapsed on the floor. I decided I would keep looking for a chair of a little higher quality. They just …

I grew up eating my mother’s version of goulash. After Lois and I married we used it to keep the kids full. If you look at them now, they are probably about thirty percent goulash. We all love it. When the children were small we would make a big vat of it for an evening meal. When we were done the kids would all pitch in on the clean-up.

Here is my Mother’s Day message. I hope you enjoy it. I dedicate it to the memory and honor of Grace Pierpont, Charlotte Shipley, Jane Pierpont, Allene Hatton, and Lois Pierpont.
Garrison Keilor says all that in Lake Woebegone, Minnesota all the women are strong. Here is a story about a woman who would not quit.

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06:00 PMKen Pierpont; Selected Scriptures from the Gospels

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11:00 AMKen Pierpont; Matthew 15:22-28, Mark 7:24-30

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Yesterday I was moving some books and stumbled across an old journal. A thirty-year-old journal. Lois and I were married in September of 1979. The first journal entry was the first of October.
“My first entry in this journal will be by way of introduction. I have been married a week short of a month and I am working my way through college and supporting my family at VanCleve Elementary in Troy, Ohio.
A few days before my marriage I was reading some short writings of my dad’s that he wrote …