The day may soon come — probably, very soon — when we tire of KARE 11’s updates of the relationship between an old man and a little kid, but today is not the day.
“It’s kind of lonely out here sometimes you know,” Erling Kindem of Dundas says about the 3-year-old boy who lived next door once upon a time.
This one goes out to all the people in your past who promised to keep in touch, but never did.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins