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The Wide Angle: The best stories are those with cats
Sometimes, I have to wonder if I do stories on the Mower County Humane Society because of the ...
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The Wide Angle: The late night stresses of not sleeping
A lot of things can go through my mind during the listless hours of the morning. Those dark, ...
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The Wide Angle: Never wait to be annoyed when it comes to cleaning
I practice a rather technical, time-associated method of cleaning at home called Timed Annoyance Cleaning or as I ...
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The Wide Angle: Lack of internet nearly killed us
Now that I’m at the age of 50 and frighteningly close to the senior citizen’s discount at Perkins, ...
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The Wide Angle: To paint or not to paint
Here’s the dilemma I’m facing: To paint or not to paint. A couple of years ago we decided ...
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The Wide Angle: Don’t believe the warm weather
It’s March 12 as I put these disjointed thoughts to paper and if the weather forecasters are to ...
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The Wide Angle: We’re 1/80th the way there
Tuesday was something of an extraordinary day in our household — the installation of a new kitchen faucet. ...
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The Wide Angle: Hungry like the wolf?
For the sake of continuing to foster a strong relationship with the woman who agreed (amazingly) to share ...
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The Wide Angle: Always go full bunny
As with most things in life, there are lessons to be learned from being a braggart. Many of ...
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The Wide Angle: Vroom, goes the snowblower
When you live in Minnesota you pay the price for saying things like, “You know, I may not ...
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The Wide Angle: Puzzled by ornaments
If you were to dip your head into my office and observe its set-up, the one thing you ...
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The Wide Angle: Resolve to be resolute?
Christmas has come and gone, leaving just New Year’s Eve on the horizon as the last holiday and ...
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The Wide Angle: Christmas shopping is spy game
I knew it as soon as I walked into the house and then the living room. On Monday ...
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The Wide Angle: Let the symmetry of the perfect tree define the holidays
For all 35 of you that read my column (I kind of lost track where my column count ...
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The Wide Angle: Was ‘91 blizzard that bad?
The question was posed to me recently on whether or not the Halloween of 1991 was as bad ...