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The Wide Angle: Mead that tastes like it smells
“So Eric, how is the homebrewing going?” Well Steve King, let me tell you how it’s going — ...
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The Wide Angle: That’s just so 1988
As of late, I’ve studied a disturbing and fairly recent trend among children attending our schools. It’s a ...
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The Wide Angle: Complaining, I went pro years ago
It seems just about right. For weeks I’ve been complaining about the lack of rain, which consequently has ...
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The Wide Angle: KGB spies planted that quinoa in my room
It shows you where I was in life last week when I forgot my own column, so because ...
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The Wide Angle: Lord of the Floors —The Return of Couch
If you’re reading this then I must have been a success of some sort when it comes to ...
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The Wide Angle: Refinishing wood floors with a woodshop idiot (and cats)
Do you realize that I’ve willingly damaged my house in order to make it better and that I’m ...
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The Wide Angle: Sometimes, we just need strong rock ‘n’ roll
I hate to pull the, “back in my day” argument for anything, but listening to a classic station ...
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The Wide Angle: Power tools, or reasons to keep them away from me
If you were to go back in time and ask my woodshop teacher for his thoughts on me ...
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The Wide Angle: Johnsons are great people
When Holly Johnson gave me the news not long ago that she would be stepping down as executive ...
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The Wide Angle: The fact remains — no sucker
I have received the Blessing of St. Science. That’s right. On Thursday I received my first of two ...
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The Wide Angle: Dry spell is over — HA! Laundry humor!
In a milestone of adult living, we purchased our first washer-dryer set recently, with the dryer being installed ...
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The Wide Angle: I have nothing important to say … for real this time
Once again we’ve come to a week where I have very few thoughts on where I want to ...
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The Wide Angle: Well, that settles it. I’m getting older
I’m not at all sure what this says about me or my current time in life — but ...
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The Wide Angle: Year two of trying not to spray mead about the kitchen
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s getting a bit warmer out. Temperatures the last few days have been ...
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The Wide Angle: Draft day, or pretending to know what a general manager thinks
Was there ever a time Vikings fans haven’t wanted to trade Kirk Cousins? Asking for a friend. The ...