ERIC BERGESON
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A little cultural exchange is a good thing 
Every culture thinks it has everything figured out and that the world would be a better place if everybody were more like us.
In rural Minnesota we pride ourselves on our helpfulness towards our neighbors, our honesty in business, our disdain for tawdry shows of wealth, our ethic of hard work and our refusal to lock our doors or take the keys out of the car.
By Eric Bergeson , April 20, 2012
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An exotic ecology comparison
As the swamp in front of my house in Minnesota springs back to life, I think back to the truly odd history of wildlife in New Zealand.
Completely isolated for eons of time, New Zealand developed a strange ecosystem which went undisturbed by man until the first humans arrived in roughly 1250 AD.
By Eric Bergeson , April 06, 2012
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You can change the world!
Do you want to do something for your country? Do you long to make a difference?
Do you want to make life better for your children, or your nieces and nephews, or your grandchildren?
Do you want to leave the world a better place than you found it? Do you want to make our society more functional?
If you want to attain these high ideals, there is only one thing you need to do:
Get off your duff and exercise.
By Eric Bergeson , March 30, 2012
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A nice spring; Should we worry?
Nothing like a spell of incredibly good weather to bring out the inherent pessimism of the good folks on the northern Great Plains.
As the temperature climbs into the 70s at a time when it could well be zero, the question on the street becomes: “Should we worry?”
By Eric Bergeson , March 23, 2012
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Column: New Zealand change — the kind in your pocket
New Zealand has nearly eradicated change.
By change, I mean the stuff that jingles in your pocket when you come home from town, rattles in the drier, piles up on the dresser, ends up in a tupperware which one lugs to the bank every two years.
The ever-practical Kiwis are always tweaking their system, right down to their pocket change.
By Eric Bergeson , March 09, 2012
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Fox Glacier - one of Earth’s natural wonders
The sparsely-populated South Island of New Zealand lies about as close to Antarctica as you can get without a plane or boat.
Yet, it contains a gaudy variety of scenery unseen anywhere else.
The crown jewel of the South Island is its remote West Coast, a former gold-mining region now devoted to dairy and tourism.
By Eric Bergeson , February 24, 2012
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First stop: Mangawhai, New Zealand
First stop in New Zealand: The coastal town of Mangawhai, north of Auckland, on the east coast, looking out towards several islands.
By Eric Bergeson , February 17, 2012
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Gone down under to New Zealand
After fifteen years of loyalty to Arizona, this winter brings a new warm weather destination: New Zealand.
By Eric Bergeson , February 10, 2012
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Winning the oil lottery and Hitting a gusher
Turns out, finding oil on your land is a little like winning the lottery.
Everybody dreams they’ll win the lottery, but most all lottery winners soon come to rue the day they bought the winning ticket.
Friends expect freebies. The winners’ job becomes meaningless. Their daily life loses focus. Distant cousins materialize overnight. Offspring squabble over their money. Calls come in from worthy causes the world over.
By Eric Bergeson , February 03, 2012
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Waking up classic music fans
Provocative Korean-born violinist Hahn-bin pranced and preened his way across the wood floor of the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks last Sunday as a part of the NDMA’s annual concert series.
“American classical music audiences are half asleep,” the unusual prodigy said in a recent interview, adding that it is the performer’s obligation to wake them up.
January 27, 2012
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Get ready to change Ma’s diapers
In the New York Times this past week, Princeton University Professor Hendrik Hartog wrote about the old days when families took care of elderly people.
January 20, 2012
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Creating a nation of whiners
The last thing a kid needs when he gets in a little trouble or doesn’t get as much playing time as might seem right is to have his parents turn into his free defense lawyers.
“My kid would never do that,” seems to have replaced “Well, you’d better go take your lumps” in the parental phrase book, even on the smallest matters.
By Eric Bergeson , January 13, 2012
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Counting tree rings, thinking of the past
Twas the day after Christmas, but it could have been October. No snow. Mid-forties. A perfect day for cutting firewood.
There stood a big dead ash tree about 100 yards from the house that’s been bugging me for a couple of years, so I decided to go after it. It alone could heat the house for at least two weeks!
January 06, 2012
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New more healthy habits
The use of the New Year’s holiday as a chance to get one’s behavior under control by making resolutions just shows how firmly habit holds us in its iron grip.
By Eric Bergeson , December 30, 2011
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Recording the storytellers
“You know, somebody should get him on tape telling all those stories,” you hear people say about some local wag.
“Someday I just want to set up a video camera have her talk for an hour,” others announce. “When she’s gone, all that history will just disappear.”
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Most wanna-be documentarians never get around to recording the storytellers and the old-timers.
By Eric Bergeson , December 23, 2011
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