The View from Here
with Ed Holahan
Fridays at 8:00AM
Ed Holahan was born and raised in New York City, spent 35 years inventing toys and games in The Twin Cities and Chicago and moved to the Driftless in 2006.
He and Mary Benson have been married for 44 years. They’re getting really good at it.
“The View From Here” presents a five minute essay every Friday morning. The show will celebrate thirteen years on the air in ’23.
If you live long enough you get to share what you know.
Ed lives in Viroqua in between church bells and a nursing home.
What I Know For Sure
Sharing a very short list.
The World Series
Playing for all the marbles
Buttering My Toast
There are so many signs for autumn.
Papa Bach
Listening to his music
Presidential Postage
Licking his backside
Pen Pals
My mother and her new BFF
Years of Talk
Goodbye to “Conversations”
It’s That Time Again
15 years on the air…and it’s Pledge Day
Branded
I remember all those ads!
Joe
Today would have been his 78th birthday
The Things We Used To Say
So many phrases have left the language
City Services
Toto, we’re not in Chicago anymore.
Generalizing
“Bone Spurs” will interview generals!
A Daring Rescue!
The runaway walker
Looking Out the Window
Birdwatching
Hideouts
For when you need to get away…
Dvorak
Thinking about America
Working Without a Net
Facing your demons
For Mary
Happy Birthday to her.
No Kings
I think there’s a chance that this might just catch on.
Matriculation
Graduating from High School
My Father
A New Yorker, to be sure.
Havermeyer 4
I’ll never forget my first phone number.
The Blank Page
It won’t last forever.
Strongmen
They come to power in myriad ways.
Mothers Day
Teresia was one tough cookie.
Cook Books
The good, the bad and the ugly
Two New Eyes
Phacoemulsification is the bomb!
In The Spring
Making soil
The List Of A Life
Counting things up
My Left Eye
A case of morning vision
In Scripture
You can find justifcation for just about anything
Alpha Boys
Chidren and rocketships
Leaving
I’ll never get used to it.
Old Toys Never Die
They go to Kellogg, Minnesota
“Rabbit, rabbit”
Let’s review the rules
Puzzled
Some of the pieces had to be surgically altered
A Very Long Cruise
Ways to spend the next four years
Denali
Let’s rename everything
Unconstitutional
The Constitutional Sheriffs Organization
Words…
…that should be words
Resolutions
Big ones and small ones for 2025
The Left Coast
We are just back from a trip out West
Epiphany
The birth of Advertising
Midnight Mass
Johnny Boyle and I had a “working” relationship
Holiday Dining
Uncle Louie’s advice is timeless…so to speak…
Santa Claus
According to John Johnson
Twister
It’s a good time of year for a Toy Story
The Stock Pot
A Thanksgiving story
The Shoemaker’s World
I spent my first ten years on a planet very different from this one
A Clear Choice
We chose the felon
Armistice Day
An annual reflection on war
Just Show Up
Election Day
On My Birthday
Finding your voice
The Donald’s Demise
You gotta go sometime…
Her “Old Time” Friend
I wonder who she was talking about
Synchronized Sleeping
Keeping the covers on
Equinox
Autumn is here
Personal Best
A record setting day
It’s Friday the 13th!
So what?
Time Travel
I’m planning a trip…back in time.
Everest
I have a new friend
Trousers in the White House
There’s a lot of talk about pantsuits!
Wrestling with a Cult
Why MAGA works for so many folks
Our Big Senior Moment
We should have known…right away.
Carl and Addie
Homesteading in the Driftless
Olympic Judging
“Voting” on athletic events
Son of a “Madman”
The Madison Avenue effect
Humidity
Is it possible to have more than 100%…of anything?
Camping
On the second floor
X-Ray Glasses
Things I sent away for.
Willie Mays
The best I ever saw.
Straightening The Kickapoo
Which is a very crooked river.
A Little Night Music
Getting on Wolfy’s dance card
Into The Light
The longest days are here…
Once on this Island
A theater review
One Big Idea
I’m running for President…again
Mothers Day
It’s time you met my mom
The Roost
Every night of the year
A Resolution
Into my mouth
The Gettysburg Address
Trump’s version
Gravitons
Who knew?
Real Food
And where it comes from
Breakfast
I need the eggs!
First Light
Solitude and Fillmore East
Life In Chapters
Take a break in between
A New Old Story
John Johnson returns
A Morning Walk
Reaffirming almost everything
The Forces
Someone or something…is after me
Push The Cat
Creative solutions to life’s challenges
A Night At The Opera
Two boys from Queens
99 Cell Phones
Navigating the 21st Century
Tin Soldiers
A battle for Christmas
The Platinum Plunger
Cleanest restrooms in America
My Easy Chair
The best seat in the house.
Jean Sibelius
The music of winter
Twister
A toy story
Middle Aged Mice
Amino Acids
Holiday Dining
Uncle Louie’s timeless advice
Longer Nights
A place in each Hemisphere