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    July 18, 2017
    My family (from left: Anton, Edith and Britta) raises a toast to our Summer of Yeehaw. Kris Kerzman / The Forum
    Parenting Perspectives: A moment of Zen amid our Summer of Yeehaw
    Right around the beginning of the summer our 2-year-old, Anton, began delighting us with a new phrase. While riding his trike or swinging in...
    opinionJuly 18, 2017 - 9:14am
    July 11, 2017
    Nicole Welle, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    Parenting Perspectives: A 1970s summer is within reach
    This is my first summer at home full time with my school-aged children, and so far, I'm loving it more than I even imagined. True, we've tackled...
    opinionJuly 11, 2017 - 9:14am
    July 8, 2017
    Carol Bursack of Minding Our Elders
    Minding Our Elders: Pain medication for older patients must be carefully chosen and closely monitored
    Dear Carol: My dad has Alzheimer's. Recently, he had a bad fall and needed to be hospitalized. Dad was given Dilaudid for pain, but the drug...
    opinionJuly 8, 2017 - 8:13am
    July 4, 2017
    Ben Hanson, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    Life as a parent: Wonderful, terrible and just downright conflicted
    If I had to sum up in one word what it feels like to be a parent — the day-to-day reality of parenthood — I'd say conflicted. You...
    NewsJuly 4, 2017 - 7:07am
    June 27, 2017
    Alicia Strnad Hoalcraft, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    Parenting Perspectives: A moment in the mind of a mom
    OK, so we have enough chicken nuggets for Callie for a while. Did I check the ketchup? We have ketchup. When is that person's birthday? What...
    opinionJune 27, 2017 - 9:52am
    June 20, 2017
    Val Kleppen, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    Our daughter's letter from the FBI: When a child really loses a tooth
    Little Miss is at the age where missing teeth are a regular occurrence around our home. Her fourth tooth in nine months came out the other...
    opinionJune 20, 2017 - 11:02am
    June 18, 2017
    Arndt and Hazel Braaten go for a walk near their Duluth home on June 8, 2017. The couple married in 1947. Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service
    'Today is today and I love you': From Madagascar to Duluth, couple’s love endures for seven decades
    Arndt Braaten was never one to make impulsive decisions. When he was confirmed into the Lutheran church, for example, the 13-year-old saw it...
    NewsJune 18, 2017 - 6:00am
    June 16, 2017
    Hannah Toland (from left), Anissa Jones, and Krista Pascoe are a part of a group that is running in Grandma’s Marathon on Saturday, June 17, in honor of Morgan Long, who died at age 19 last October after a 17-year battle with cancer. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service)
    Running to remember: Friends, family enter Grandma’s in tribute to Morgan Long
    DULUTH — Morgan Long loved the color purple, butterflies and Converse tennis shoes. "Fifteen at least," said her friend Anissa Jones about...
    NewsJune 16, 2017 - 6:00am
    June 6, 2017
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    How do you keep a family together after a divorce?
    For years, I was under the impression that my husband and I had cultivated the near-perfect marriage, the two of us like His and Her Majesty,...
    June 6, 2017 - 2:03pm
    June 4, 2017
    t06.04.2017 Mike Krebs 060417.O.DNT.CHALSTROMc Sue Chalstrom retired from Chalstrom's Bait and Tackle on Jan. 1, 2017. She worked at the shop on and off since June 1981.
    Minnow matriarch: For 36 years, Sue Chalstrom always kept her fishing customers happy
    DULUTH, Minn. — Those early days owning a bait shop were touch-and-go for Sue Chalstrom. She and her husband, John, had just bought their...
    sportsJune 4, 2017 - 3:15pm
    May 30, 2017
    Ben Hanson, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    Parenting Perspectives: Alone in the woods, Dad finds new appreciation of home
    I wasn't more than 10 minutes into my first solo canoe trip to the Boundary Waters when an old, familiar emotion took hold. I hadn't felt it...
    opinionMay 30, 2017 - 11:23am
    May 26, 2017
    Jessica Runck, Homegrown Hollywood columnist
    Jessica Runck: Women feel enough guilt without judgement over infertility
    Hi Katie. It's me, Jessica. I'm the woman whose article about infertility you responded to in a letter entitled, "A strong faith is all you need...
    NewsMay 26, 2017 - 6:01am
    May 22, 2017
    Alicia Strnad Hoalcraft, Parenting Perspectives columnist
    What no one warns you about parenting
    FARGO — I stared at the survey question, not sure I dared answer with the truth. "What part of parenting did no one warn you about?" it...
    NewsMay 22, 2017 - 2:00pm
    May 21, 2017
    Aleks Sethre (clockwise starting from top left); Andriana; Mia, 10; Keile, 8; and Astrid, 8 months, pose in front of their home in Grand Forks on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. (Joshua Komer / Forum News Service)
    The view from the middle: Middle-class population, definition in flux
    Andriana and Aleks Sethre figured they would be better off by now. At age 30, they'd followed the rule book to success: finished high school,...
    NewsMay 21, 2017 - 9:00am
    May 19, 2017
    Nobles County Community Services Director Stacie Golombiecki, left, and Family and Social Services Supervisor Krysta Anderson hold some of the fleece blankets given to children who enter emergency foster care. Tim Middagh / Forum News Service
    Need for foster parents is great in Minn.
    WORTHINGTON, Minn. — Each year since 1988, the month of May has drawn attention to the nation's foster care programs — from the people...
    NewsMay 19, 2017 - 4:31pm
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