Old Scout

I'm usually very predictable when I go onto my computer, and so the list of websites under my address bar often stays the same week to week, even year to year. There's the New York Times website, my fantasy baseball site, my work email, NPR, this blog, my credit card, bank, and others.

One site that went to the wayside recently was Garrison Keillor's "Old Scout" site, which is compilation of his personal essays. Keillor, the host of "A Prairie Home Companion" on NPR, writes about one a week. His prose is smooth; he can turn a phrase, as they say. He writes a lot about being a Democrat, his daughter, the simple pleasures of life, like, for instance, watching a Little League game and talking to a dad in the stands. Keillor has that gift of knowing how to grab at a reader, or, in the case of his radio show, the listener.

Check out his site, and tell me what you think. The archives are down and to the right.

http://origin-prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2005/old_scout/