To: Joe McD. Date: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: "Now why don't he write?" That's a line out of, "Dances With Wolves." The ill-fated mule skinner, looking at a sun-bleached human skeleton with an arrow sticking into it (versus, 'sticking out of it') is talking to "John Dunbar," and explaining that some of these po' folks are never heard from again, and the people back home are wondering, " Now why don't he write? " The wife and I were going to Ulen (not far from Fargo) on Saturday but two of Jackie's grandchildren came north with their dad, to stay a week, (just the kids), and two of Jackie's friends, one from TRF and one from Fargo, came up to visit us, so we stayed home. On Sunday, I went to Rydell Wildlife Management Refuge to hear a talk about NW Minnesota's Savannah-Parkland region, and Red River Ox Cart Trails, given by Nancy Sather, a naturalist and writer I've wanted to met for ...