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Lent was always a dark time when I was young. I remember going to those Wednesday night Lenten services where my grandfather served as pastor. It always seemed so cold,...

When Victor Borge came to Minot some years ago to put on his program of music and comedy at the Norsk Hostfest, my wife, Gerda, and I were his hosts...

When you are used to cooking for a whole family, especially if it consists of growing boys, you cook big pots of chili, stew, soup, and the like. But when...

The Bemidji United Methodist (BUMC) bulletin for Dec. 23, 2012, said Pastor Gay would be on vacation Dec. 30, and announced a substitute preacher for that Sunday. However, it occurred...

A Bemidji area audience was wonderfully entertained a few weeks ago by a well-known Minnesota vocalist named Prudence Johnson who, with her piano accompanist, put on an excellent two-hour show...

Here we are in the dead of winter. Or as the poet Christina Rosetti called it, “the bleak midwinter… snow on snow on snow.” Those are the lyrics to a...

Question: Is there still such a thing as a farm license? I remember some of my friends having one, but that was a long time ago and they basically used...

One of the polite things you can do with people you don’t know very well is ask them about their jobs. What do they do? Who do they do it...

Scandinavians first came to America in the days of Leif Eriksen 1,000 years ago. They have been coming ever since. The modern period of emigration from Norway dates back to...

Have you noticed the myriad of energy and health drinks in your local grocery store? I recently purchased a bottle of zero calorie Steaz and on the inside of the...

The cold days of winter are a wonderful time to enjoy the great schedule of special events and regular programs at the Bemidji Public Library. Children will have a chance...

“After living on a farm for my first 21 years, I got tired of getting up at 5:30 to milk cows. So I went off to school to become a...

Question: I know you are always talking about the number of traffic deaths in Minnesota for each year, but how many have there been in the past 10 years? It’s...

The first time I ever wrote a computer program was back in high school. I wrote it in a language called BASIC on my TI 86. The program wasn’t fancy...

On the first day of teaching my interpersonal communications class at Northwest Tech, before I said anything, I asked my students, “What is the most important thing I have said...