That was the year that Cong Tuyen and Le Huynh Duc played for the National Team. After Cong Minh, the prodigy from the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, Huynh Duc was Vietnam’s greatest footballer. He was tall for a Vietnamese, and skilled and powerful. He was the first Vietnamese player to be good enough to play abroad, first in […]

I recently heard the word Ubuntu. If you are not familiar with this term, it means “I am, because we are.” The story I read was about a group of children playing outside. A person had a beautiful basket of fruit that they placed under a tree across the meadow. They told the children that the first to race to […]

In a traditional classroom setting, learners are often told what they need to know. They are taught or shown to memorize subject material or the steps of a process. This information later culminates in an assessment (test or report) illustrating how to use what was learned. While this methodology will always have some merit and use in acquiring certain skills, […]

So, a coronavirus walks into a bar. and says to the bartender, “I’ll have a shot.” The bartender replies, “Great! You can register at www.cookcountycovid19.org!” But seriously folks, should we be laughing when all around us is hardship, when so many people have lost so much, and when hope can seem in short supply? The short answer is “Yes!” Here’s […]

The history of the Highway 61 area tends to focus on our Euro-centric American ancestors, from about 1820 to the present. We learn little, if anything, about four major groups who preceded them: 1) Lakota Sioux came to dominate southern and western Minnesota all the way to the Rockies, 2) Anishinaabe people dominated northern Minnesota and, 3) along with the […]