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    Column: Upping the odds for humanity
    It's been a while since we visited the Darwin Awards, which are awarded posthumously (or is that "post-humorously?") to those adults who, because...
    opinionFebruary 27, 2013 - 4:53pm
    February 21, 2013
    Connie Vandermay/FOCUS This year's traditional Vandermay "mystery" birthday cake.
    Column: The tradition of the mystery cake
    "So the cones are the nails? And the cupcakes must be... fingers?" That was the comment from my nine-year-old son last weekend as he checked...
    opinionFebruary 21, 2013 - 6:15pm
    February 15, 2013
    Column: Aging appliances create a soap opera set in the basement
    There was another ruckus down in the basement last night, about the fourth or fifth one these last two weeks. I went down to see what the heck...
    opinionFebruary 15, 2013 - 10:51am
    January 25, 2013
    Column: A 13-year-old with a bumptious bite has Dad bracing himself for the bill
    First, let me say: I love dentists. Now this story, from a daughter who needed braces, way back when she was 13. I took her and her bumptious...
    opinionJanuary 25, 2013 - 1:20pm
    January 18, 2013
    Column: Diving for Fish
    I'm honestly not sure which hit the icy water first - the fish or my husband. The line snapped just as the Northern was coming up out of the...
    opinionJanuary 18, 2013 - 1:35pm
    January 4, 2013
    Columnists: A yodeling pickle, you say? The worst gifts possible
    At Christmas time, I find myself missing my hardware store, which always saw a panicky influx of male shoppers the day before Christmas. They...
    opinionJanuary 4, 2013 - 9:20am
    December 31, 2012
    Chloe Miller is one of Roberta Miller's rescue boxers who lives in Perham. "Those people that foster I give them so much credit," Roberta said. Chloe and Hanna only had a few days with a foster home before the Millers' gave them their "Forever Home." Photo by Robert Williams/FOCUS
    Column: Happy Dog Year!
    It was my very own season of the itch this past summer when I up and decided it was finally time I got a dog. My year 2012 will be remembered...
    opinion/NewsDecember 31, 2012 - 5:15pm
    December 27, 2012
    Column: 'Merry Christmas,' I shouted
    This column is a repeat of my 2011 greeting. Three hundred one Americans died in Afghanistan in 2012. In the last month, one Minnesotan, Dale Means, 23, of Jordan, died there. Beyond those numbers, deaths of service personnel from suicide exceed combat deaths. What a tragic, painful...
    opinionDecember 27, 2012 - 12:57pm
    Column: Wrapping up hope for kids at Christmas
    Ask my kids what their favorite thing about Christmas is, and they will probably say, "Presents." I'm not saying my kids are abnormally greedy....
    opinionDecember 27, 2012 - 12:50pm
    December 19, 2012
    Columnists: Bad bosses
    According to Forbes magazine, in an article entitled, "Jerk Alert - Bad Boss Walking," bad bosses are everywhere.  Before I go any further...
    opinionDecember 19, 2012 - 1:10pm
    December 13, 2012
    Columnists: An almost magnetic attraction to naps
    Back on the farm growing up, dad was a big napper, and I can remember him snoozing a few minutes after a huge midday meal, there on the living...
    opinionDecember 13, 2012 - 12:45pm
    December 11, 2012
    Column: To Tweet or not to Tweet
    WWW - With the advent and release of Twitter in the summer of 2006, I swore, as a freelancer who did much of his work on a barstool, I shall...
    opinion/sportsDecember 11, 2012 - 12:29pm
    December 6, 2012
    Columnists: Painting myself into the picture
    It wasn't a flattering picture of me. I wore a shapeless outfit cut from old newspapers. My stick-thin legs stuck out the bottom of my skirt,...
    opinionDecember 6, 2012 - 10:03am
    Columnists: A lesson in bad English
    All writers that do what I do walk a fine line between correct English and English the way it is often used. Almost always, I'll look at something...
    opinionDecember 6, 2012 - 9:50am
    November 29, 2012
    Columnists: Computers and other complications
    So I'm sitting at this computer in my office, trying to get Windows 8 figured out. This new computer home page, as most of you PC owners will...
    opinionNovember 29, 2012 - 1:08pm
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