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FireMy hometown is kind of a mess. Over the weekend, our grain elevator, by far the biggest structure in town, suffered a major fire. The part that …
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CriticalMy Great Uncle Carl, the guy who lived in our house before we did, twice spent time in a state institution being treated with electroshock thera…
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PricklesSunday afternoon the giant dog wandered around the yard, trying to make friends. She’s usually pretty charming, if you can overlook the drool, b…
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A better world...On Friday, July 16th, 7:00 p.m., I’ll be at Lingonberries in Ortonville. We’ll have a discussion about my new book, in which, believe it or not,…
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MemoryThis Fourth of July most of the clan was gathered, and we were playing that unnamed family game, the one that gets more interesting the older we…
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Two July 4 columns...oldies but still goodies.Here’s a story I think about often around the Fourth of July. In 1957, the Supreme Court had ruled that schools in Little Rock, Arkansas needed …
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CoachingA baseball game. Eleven and twelve-year-olds. Roughly one third of the team bursts into tears at some point, many of them after talking to their…
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IvanI was driving between farms the other day and noticed that the wild roses were bloo…
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