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Detroit Lakes, Minn. If you're a walleye fisherman, it never gets old. Seeing all those walleyes, the chunky females and scrawny males, contained...

The unpredictable weather in southern Minnesota means that spring planting season is brief and often frantic, sometimes requiring 24-hour shifts...

Do you want to know what the real curse of Oak Island is? That it will never end. That I have spent seven seasons and countless hours watching...

How do you get the most out of life? The best parts of life start with new beginnings. You find a new job, it's a new beginning. You meet a soul...

I tease my husband that being on "The Price is Right" was more fun than my wedding night. Luckily, my husband has a sense of humor. Back in February,...

This week’s recipe for Sweet Potato Hash was inspired by a desire to bring the colors of spring to our table this Easter. With its bright colors...

I believe three things in life need to be chunky. One is peanut butter. The second is babies. And the third is chocolate chip cookies. I feel...

Education, for me, is all about dreaming the impossible dream and then trying to make the impossible dream possible. I don't think I am alone...

As a writer who documents my life weekly, the gift I get in exchange for the deadlines is a chance to look back on previous versions of myself....

I interviewed my mother in 1985 on her 80th birthday, and recorded the interview with a cassette recorder. The interview lasted approximately...

Alright, there's a touch of hyperbole in that headline (especially since Miller died in 1944), but there's also a touch of honesty too, depending...

They stand around gas pumps in small towns, usually male, a little long in the tooth, but occasionally there are younger guys around too, sucking...

One winter several years before Mary Lou and I met, she was in Chicago for an educational conference. The conference’s importance was reflected...

When I arrive at Giovanni’s, six members of the monthly get-together of Bemidji High School’s graduating class of 1954 have already arrived...

“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley.” (Written by Robert Burns after he had turned over the nest of a tiny field mouse...