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| Hey, inventors (05/12/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Lazy people such as I am must be an inspiration for inventors. We’re always looking for ways to get out of work, or find a short cut to complete a task.
We’re the types who get excited about new in ... FULL STORY
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| Levee Park (05/05/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I am usually an optimistic person. I look on the bright side. I have faith in human resources.
However — you knew that was coming — I am experiencing some rather strong feelings of fruitlessness ab ... FULL STORY
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| Brief Spring (05/01/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Briefly, we hail Spring. Little red buds adorn the trees, green shoots spring from the ground, the lawn is covered with sticks and branches from the last winter storm, and a mine field of dog doo has ... FULL STORY
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| Who’s a bully? (04/28/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
A new “bullying” bill is in the Minnesota Legislature, under the guise of “education reform.” It is yet another example of government posturing designed to convince the people that, yes, those in po ... FULL STORY
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| Boston (04/21/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
People often ask me how I can think of something to write about twice a week. I tell them that there is so much going on in life that I am never at a loss.
Today, though, it is not that I can’t find ... FULL STORY
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| The garden (04/03/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Vicki Englich’s column, The Urban Farmer, begins today, despite the fact that overnight lows left a covering of ice on our gardens. Spring will come!! Don’t give up hope!!
Vicki writes about her gran ... FULL STORY
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| No grad tests? (03/27/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It was bound to come to this. Ever since the state instituted graduation tests, the public school complex in the state has worked to get them thrown out. Now, with a pro-teachers union governor and ... FULL STORY
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| A mind is a beautiful thing (03/10/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Minds are funny things. Sometimes if we’re “of a different mind” from another person, we secretly think, “Gee, what an idiot!” Sometimes we even say it.
We do tend to give a little slack to the very ... FULL STORY
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| Good news from Mexico (03/03/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Dramatic changes in the public education system in Mexico being enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto could be very good news for us in the U.S., and for the struggling Mexican people.
Pena Nieto’s ... FULL STORY
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| Bad decision (02/13/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Boundary disputes are among the most contentious of all litigations. After all, they are very often about people’s homes, a topic that can elicit a visceral response.
In Winona County, a dispute over ... FULL STORY
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| Kids (01/27/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I am writing from my hotel room in Minneapolis, or maybe it’s Bloomington. We are here for the Minnesota Newspaper Association annual convention, and the Minnesota Free Paper Association board meeti ... FULL STORY
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| House rules (01/23/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“Well,” I said to the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about, “I think it’s time for your annual review.” He didn’t lift his head from his pillow, although his eyes were open.
“I don’t remember this hap ... FULL STORY
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| The Plan (01/20/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“We are going to need to work on making access to mental health care as easy as access to a gun.” President Barack Obama
I think, for many reasons, that President Obama’s “gun control” plan is misg ... FULL STORY
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| What should board do now? (01/13/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I find it disturbing that the full Winona County Board has not been receiving key facts from their staff. The Winona Post, under the Freedom of Information Act, requested to view any and all emails ... FULL STORY
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| Winter fog (01/09/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Not everyone lives in a place where the drive to work is not only a lesson in natural science, but a sensory pleasure. We do. Each morning my drive to work brings a new experience. This morning, on ... FULL STORY
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| Disaster! (01/06/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
January and February can be slow months for many people, especially those who don’t ice fish, ski, skate, snowshoe, snowmobile, or shoot coyotes. And darkness can curtail most of those activities.
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| Smile! (01/02/2013) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Happy New Year!
Among today’s letters to the editor is one about dental health. The writer, Dr. Michael Flynn, who is president of the Minnesota Dental Association, says that he has seen the bad eff ... FULL STORY
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| Happy New Year (12/30/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Working on your New Year’s resolutions? I’ve decided to give up resolutions once and for all. I think the one-day-at-a-time approach to changing my bad habits works best for me.
Take food. (Please! ... FULL STORY
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| Merry After (12/26/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We had an early deadline for today’s newspaper so that our mail room and carriers wouldn’t be working on Christmas Day. So I’m writing this column before Christmas Day, and you’ll be reading it after ... FULL STORY
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| Still here (12/23/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Well, the world didn’t end. Did it? I’m actually glad, since this is the first time in my life that I have had my Christmas shopping done this early.
In our family we have the Fable of the Box of Ch ... FULL STORY
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| Budget cuts (12/16/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Soon, the Winona Public Schools administration will address budget cuts. Part of that presentation will be about information gathered from the public in the recent survey conducted on the school dis ... FULL STORY
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| Family hero (12/09/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I especially like it when something happens in the news that connects long-abandoned synapses in my brain, and old stories come rushing back to me. Such happened Friday, the anniversary of the attac ... FULL STORY
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| Year ‘round (11/25/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Modern public education tends more and more to throw the baby out with the bath water. If the system works for the majority of the students, we tend to ignore that fact and panic over the minority. ... FULL STORY
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| Two women I will miss (11/18/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Two women I have admired for many years died recently, and they deserve to be remembered.
I credit Virginia O’Brien, who died on November 7, with giving my children a first grade experience that bec ... FULL STORY
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| Let’s recycle the contract (11/07/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Someone in the Winona County government should be reprimanded, and consequences exacted, for the mishandling of the county’s new, “ground-breaking” recycling system.
The company with which the county ... FULL STORY
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| Dumpster dives (10/28/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I called my sister in Massachusetts to see if they had any action yet from the hurricane blowing around the East Coast. Not yet. Last year at Halloween, they had a huge snowstorm that sent trees and l ... FULL STORY
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| Mystery solved (10/21/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The mystery is solved in a rare moment of candor at the Winona Area Public Schools school board meeting.
The reading public now knows why it is that Supt. Scott Hannon is well-loved by his faculty an ... FULL STORY
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| Reunion (10/17/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This past weekend was my college reunion. It may seem odd to have a reunion at a college that no longer exists, but College of Saint Teresa alumnae are lucky that their campus still exists intact.
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| Holy Dog! (10/14/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I went to St. Paul to deliver something to my daughter Cassidy last weekend. It wasn’t the perfect weekend to visit, although there is never a bad time to see them and my grandson, Harry.
They are r ... FULL STORY
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| Cruelty behind the keyboard (10/07/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
When a La Crosse television news reporter recently spoke out about receiving an email in which the writer called her “obese,” we talked about it in our own newsroom.
Sarah Squires, who has been a new ... FULL STORY
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| Camp wedding (09/26/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The son of friends was married last weekend. But it goes beyond that. Jacob Woodworth and our late son, Jake, were best friends during their grade school and middle school years. I have many memorie ... FULL STORY
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| You gotta have hope (09/23/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
At the risk of having you think I’m losing it, I am going to tell you about an experience I had on Wednesday morning.
I had an early (6:30 a.m.) appointment at the Mayo Clinic for a physical, to see ... FULL STORY
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| We never learn (09/19/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The headline in the Star Tribune of Sept. 15 read, “Search comes up empty in porn case vs. coach.”
In the early ‘80s, in Scott County, Minnesota, Kathleen Morris, the county attorney, opened a case ... FULL STORY
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| Does board have an ‘agenda’ (09/16/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
There is an interesting debate going on among the members of the Dist. 861 school board, and some of the district’s administrators.
The question is, should school board members be members of various ... FULL STORY
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| Lighthouse Road, a review (09/09/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Minnesota author Peter Geye’s latest book, The Lighthouse Road, tells a story that is hard to like. But in its favor, the book is good on several levels—as a history of logging at the turn of the 19 ... FULL STORY
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| Technology (09/05/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The last few weeks have been technologically challenging for me. Luckily, I have two daughters who are whizzes at all that stuff, and they came to my rescue.
First, we couldn’t figure out how to fast ... FULL STORY
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| Goodbye, car (08/15/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I sold my car. It is a vanilla white 2006 Chrysler 300 sedan with a hemi engine, all-wheel drive, and leather seats. Whoa! It is a great car. The front of the car is intimidating and always reminded m ... FULL STORY
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| Stop ignoring it (08/01/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The reaction to the mass shootings in Colorado that killed 12 and wounded 58 people was one of horror. Life can be like a frightening fun-house. One minute you’re on solid ground, and the next, the ... FULL STORY
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| A hairy tale (07/25/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
A hairy tale
Since I stopped chemo earlier this year, my hair has been growing back. Slowly. Hair is supposed to grow at the rate of half an inch a month. Today at work, Chris and Rickie measured min ... FULL STORY
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| Learning to dive (07/15/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I remember our first child, Cassidy, learning to climb up on the couch. John and I were watching TV, and Cass, our only-precious-most-wonderful-smartest-in-the-world first child, climbed up on the cou ... FULL STORY
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| Dancing (06/20/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Surprise! I bet no one thought they’d see my face here in Fran’s spot. For those of you who don’t recognize me, I am her daughter, Morgan Gish. I have to be quick about this because I told my mom the ... FULL STORY
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| When you’re 64 (05/30/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Someday when you are old enough, your doctor will suggest a bone scan, to detect bone weakness and how likely you are to break your bones. It’s about the easiest test there is. You just lie on a table ... FULL STORY
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| The ‘hood (05/16/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Our friends in the old neighborhood gave us a going-away party Monday night. We closed on the house on Tuesday. We are caring for our granddaughters while their parents are out of town, so we packed ... FULL STORY
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| Find a cure (05/13/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
For the record, I don’t approve of bullying — of anyone at any age.
But I can’t help but be disappointed that bullying has become a rallying cry in our schools. Certainly schools must address bullyin ... FULL STORY
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| Marriage, home (05/02/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We have finally finished moving out of our old house. The last of the things we can’t move to the new house will go to the Winona Health Auxiliary Garage Sale which is this weekend in the Winona Healt ... FULL STORY
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| Love cow! (04/25/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I wouldn’t put all my trust in the computer and Internet quite yet.
My sister is a knitter. She’s just finishing a pair of socks in rather wild colors, but as she showed me on one of the Internet kni ... FULL STORY
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| Cats and birds (03/25/2012) |
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Two weeks ago, the first Robin showed up in our yard — DOA. Presumably, poor Robin Redbreast flew into our window and that was the end of his Spring. But other birds are returning and the early morn ... FULL STORY
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| Open meetings (03/14/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It is disheartening to be continually faced with the reality that Winona County does not always comply with the Minnesota Open Meeting Law. We even went so far this winter as to send a copy of the l ... FULL STORY
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| Why? (03/04/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I find myself having more questions than answers the older I get. It seems when I was in high school and college, I knew all the answers, or at least enough to get an A or a B. Then I had children, ... FULL STORY
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| The collector (02/22/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
After my mother died, my sister packed up my share of the “pitcher collection,” which mother had inherited from a good friend and fellow faculty member of my Dad’s, Marjorie Sparrow. (I know, great ... FULL STORY
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| ‘How I met the one I love’ — writing contest (02/08/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
In honor of upcoming Valentine’s Day, we’d like to hear how you met the one you love. Three lucky writers will win gift certificates!
When I meet a couple for the first time, I often will ask how the ... FULL STORY
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| Hands off (02/05/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
You hang around in hospitals long enough, and you find it’s a different world. Take the bathrooms, for instance. Who ever thought that a bathroom could be a “hands off” kind of place? But it is.
Yo ... FULL STORY
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| Hair today… (02/01/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Sunday morning as I showered and washed my hair, large chunks of the hair fell out, and some loose gobs got stuck in the hair that was still attached to my head, creating gigantic snarls. My hair ha ... FULL STORY
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| Getting to know you (01/29/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My sister is visiting, and she and the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about-the-second have been, let’s say, getting used to each other. At home, my sister has five cats. Cats (not kittens) are pretty ... FULL STORY
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| Lights on snow (01/25/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Back in the days before two fake hips entered my life, John and I were avid downhill skiers. We signed up for a YMCA program that bussed us and 38 other people to Mount Frontenac one night a week. T ... FULL STORY
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| Christmas sock (01/18/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Christmas sock
This past Christmas marked a first for me. I didn’t forget anything. I didn’t find candy a month later that was supposed to go into the stockings. I didn’t find a gift in the bottom ... FULL STORY
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| No Hostess? (01/15/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Wow, I thought when I read the news, Hostess cupcakes could disappear? Tell me it isn’t so!
That was the news on the Chicago Tribune web site, though, right there in black and white. Hostess Brands j ... FULL STORY
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| He’s a doll (01/11/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I got all three of my grandchildren dolls for Christmas. Peyton’s is blonde, like she is. Andie’s, like her, has dark hair with bangs and pigtails. And Harry’s is dark haired with a hair do that loo ... FULL STORY
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| Bill Laehn, R.I.P. (01/08/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Bill Laehn, R.I.P.
Winona loves its characters. We just lost a man who was not only a character of the first class, but a successful businessman in a profession traditionally dominated by women. Bi ... FULL STORY
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| Happy New Year (01/01/2012) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It’s odd, isn’t it, how much faith we put in the mere turn of a calendar page. Not since I was in eighth grade, baby-sitting on New Year’s Eve and watching the ball come down at Times Square on the ... FULL STORY
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| What do I do? (12/18/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
What do you do all day? I’ve been asked.
It’s a fair question from people who have never had major surgery. I mean here I am, out of the hospital, and I’m not in the office, I’m not at the grocery st ... FULL STORY
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| Visiting Santa (12/14/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Visiting Santa used to be as easy as going to downtown Winona, where there was a little Santa House set upon the Plaza.
The Plaza, for those who missed this misguided era in Winona’s city planning h ... FULL STORY
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| No butts! Just quit! (11/20/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I’m a little late in writing about The Great American Smokeout, which was Thursday, November 17. “Butt…”
I’m a reformed smoker, having taken up the nasty habit in college, because it was fun to gathe ... FULL STORY
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| So… (10/30/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
So…
How often we begin a thought with a word like “so,” perhaps as a delaying device, or a chance to telegraph that we are about to express ourselves but want our listener’s full attention. I was una ... FULL STORY
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| Should record follow you forever? (10/26/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I have a problem — a newspaper problem. I think I have made up my mind what action, or inaction, I should take, but before I do, I’d like to ask our readers what they think.
As our news has become r ... FULL STORY
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| Stop wasting that fat! (10/23/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
If I were a young doctor who wanted to make my mark in the world, I would try to find a way to transplant fat from one person to another.
Since I wrote about not having enough belly fat to reconstruc ... FULL STORY
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| One more way to steal (09/28/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun, someone pops up to surprise you.
John and I were in a neighboring city for errands and decided to have dinner at a restaurant there. Unfortunate ... FULL STORY
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| These guys are nuts! (09/25/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Now that I actually have “drive time” to and from the office, I am noticing all sorts of things I used to ignore when I lived three minutes from downtown.
First, of course, I notice the trains switch ... FULL STORY
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| Pumpkin time is here (09/21/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Our neighbor is selling pumpkins and winter squash in his front yard, rows of big pumpkins all lined up neatly in rows and the little squash taking a back seat to the king of the autumn garden.
One ... FULL STORY
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| Why did county remove records? (09/21/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I thought Mena Kaehler was just musing out loud several weeks ago when she asked the other county commissioners if they should remove all the agendas and minutes of meetings from their web site that w ... FULL STORY
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| What to do (09/18/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
No matter what it is you like to do, you can bet you can do it in the upcoming weeks.
Duck hunting opens Sept. 24. Youth waterfowl day was September 10, and our friend Abby Luhmann got three ducks o ... FULL STORY
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| Switch drinking age, age of majority (08/21/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
If the first week when college students are back in town isn’t a good reason to lower the drinking age to 18 and raise the age of majority to 21, I don’t know what is.
Think of it. If kids could drin ... FULL STORY
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| He won’t grow up (08/14/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I invited the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about 2 into my study for a chat, one of our periodic reviews of his performance as house pet.
“Well,” I said, “I have been generally pleased with your behav ... FULL STORY
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| The grass is not always greener (08/10/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I don’t claim to have a green thumb, but a person who has lived with various lawns during a lifetime should be able to grow grass, don’t you think?
All I remember about the grass at my childhood home ... FULL STORY
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| Board needs to retain authority (08/07/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Two things from recent County Board of Commissioner meetings beg for comment.
First, Board Chair Mena Kaehler, who is on a committee charged with redesigning the county’s website, asked if past meeti ... FULL STORY
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| The mystery that is mental illness (07/31/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, most of them teenagers and young adults at a summer camp. His lawyers are expected to ask the courts to certify that Breivik is insane.
On A ... FULL STORY
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| Thieves make for bad day (07/17/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This is one of those days that I am having trouble getting started on my column. It began badly, and I just can’t shake the negative feeling.
I met a friend at nine. He was going to clean our river c ... FULL STORY
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| But it’s practically brand new (07/03/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
One thing about getting older, you find out how foolish you were in your youth. We don’t have room here for all my transgressions, but I must share one with you.
Today, while I was scouting my desk d ... FULL STORY
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| Watch out, it’s almost June 21 (06/15/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Now that it’s almost summer, June 21, there are things we have to remember how to deal with all over again. So here’s a refresher course.
1. Sun. Summer often comes with sunshine. Sunshine is everywh ... FULL STORY
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| Lincoln lives! (05/29/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The school district administration should take a math class at the high school. They have apparently forgotten the rule that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
After the sch ... FULL STORY
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| Well, did it happen? (05/22/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Well, did the Rapture occur?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, an 89-year-old California (where else?) man named Harold Camping has predicted that the end of the world would begin May 21, 201 ... FULL STORY
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| The wedding is over (05/01/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Well, the wedding is over, now on to the honeymoon.
Several weeks ago, I thought I had gotten an invitation in the mail, but it was just an invitation to buy dishes with pictures (and not very flatte ... FULL STORY
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| Clarifying comment policy (04/10/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“Okay,” I said to the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about, “sit down, we need to talk.”
He always takes his time sitting, as if the messenger relaying his brain’s transmission to his butt has discovere ... FULL STORY
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| What’s under all that snow (03/16/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The receding snow has uncovered a number of things I had been trying to forget.
The deck furniture, which came with the house and was in pretty bad shape last fall, looks even worse now. There might ... FULL STORY
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| What are those things? (03/13/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“So,” said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about, “are those cats?”
“Cats?” I asked. “Are what cats? We don’t have a cat. But I saw a cat under the bird feeder.”
“I thought that was a squirrel,” he ... FULL STORY
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| Thanks for the Follies fun! (02/16/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Who knew ads could get such laughs, and not even cost millions of dollars like the ones during the Superbowl?
The Topsy Turvy Television Follies, chaired by Nancy Iglesias and Sue Degallier and spons ... FULL STORY
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| It’s Girl Scout cookie time, no waiting (02/06/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I was born too soon! Finally, I get my wish, but I would have enjoyed it more if I had gotten it when I was nine years old — and then again when I was in my mid-thirties.
We don’t have to wait for G ... FULL STORY
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| Good behavior (01/30/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“Sit,” I said.
“Now wait a minute,” he said. “When you’re talking to your other friends, you don’t say ‘sit,’ you say, ‘have a seat,’ or ‘please, sit down.’ I know, because I’ve heard you!”
“Well, ... FULL STORY
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| Our kids need better education (01/26/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Now we have not only Governor Pawlenty’s, but also Governor Dayton’s Commissioner of Education, Brenda Cassellius, saying that Minnesota is falling behind in education.
“The NAEP science scores are o ... FULL STORY
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| Paying attention (01/19/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
After I wrote about how dry things get in the winter — especially skin — I came to work to find that one of my coworkers had given me a tube of hand cream and a tube of lip balm. Great! I thought.
T ... FULL STORY
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| What does blame accomplish? (01/12/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Why are we so quick to lay blame for tragic actions such as the alleged Jared Loughner shooting of eighteen people, wounding a member of Congress and killing a federal judge and five others?
The Ne ... FULL STORY
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| Who needs resolutions? (01/05/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I must look like a person with a lot of problems. For a week now, people — some I barely know — have been asking me if I’m making any New Year’s resolutions.
I cleaned my desk (I do this twice a ye ... FULL STORY
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| Happy New Years can be stressful (01/02/2011) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“I don’t think I like this New Year thing,” said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about II.
“It doesn’t look to me as though a new year makes much of a difference in your life,” I said. “You still che ... FULL STORY
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| Bev Douglas, R.I.P. (12/22/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We lost someone dear to us last week. Bev Douglas, half of the duo of Bev and Fred of Freddie’s Fishing Float, died of bone cancer at the young age of 71.
We are a river family, and from nearly day o ... FULL STORY
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| Local author to present at Library (10/24/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
In 1998, Nancy Evanson and her husband, Ray, were on their way to China, the dream trip of a lifetime for Ray.
I had known Nancy for quite a while. Our kids were classmates, and I volunteered in her ... FULL STORY
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| I hope you are happy! (09/08/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Well, I hope you’re happy. You know who you are. You’re one of those wienies who complained all summer about the HEAT and the HUMIDITY. So now it’s COLD and HUMID. Do you like that better?
All over t ... FULL STORY
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| The season kicks off! (09/01/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Today marks the beginning of football season at the Winona Post and in the Edstrom family, with the kickoff of our annual contest, of which we’ll mark the 35th year. See pages 6 & 7A.
It all started ... FULL STORY
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| Fat rolls (08/11/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I wonder if Michelle Obama is having much luck with reducing obesity. I am watching it closely, because there are a few other things that have been getting bigger and bigger and need attention.
We bo ... FULL STORY
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| Bronkless Kites (08/08/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My granddaughter and I have a language barrier. Usually we can work it out.
But this one has us all stumped. “Bronkless Kites.”
It is apparently what I, her grandmother, told her the area near the ... FULL STORY
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| It’s GRSF time! (05/19/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
There have been sightings all over town. “Gee, that guy looks familiar…” “Isn’t that the woman who…”
The troupe of actors, directors, and technical experts who make up the Great River Shakespeare Fes ... FULL STORY
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| Change the driving age (04/28/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The news brings it all back — the paralyzing horror at what the doctors are telling you, the struggle to accept it, the heart-wrenching job of telling relatives and friends the horrible truth, the fol ... FULL STORY
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| Putting the WOW in history (04/18/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The face of downtown Winona has been going through a gradual change in the last couple of years. Some things are gone, others rising up new.
Being in the news business for so long, I have watched a ... FULL STORY
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| The Queen’s purse (04/11/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“We need money,” I said to my sister as we left the house the other day. I was hoping to get a cup of coffee or an ice cream cone — anything. I’m still in withdrawal from not shopping.
“Tell me about ... FULL STORY
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| Trying for the right note (04/04/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This time of year always brings to mind my connection with the Congregational Church, even though I’ve never been a member.
Years ago, when I was in grade school at the decidedly Roman Catholic St. ... FULL STORY
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| Rhubarb’s up! (03/31/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Each spring I am amazed all over again that without me lifting a finger, I am given the gift of rhubarb, which grows in the sun along the neighbor’s garage, and next to it, chives and lavender.
It’s ... FULL STORY
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| Think harder about supt. contract (03/17/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
When Dist. 861 Supt. Paul Durand was hired in 2004, I wrote an editorial wondering if he would bring a “sea change,” or merely a “seat change” to Winona Public Schools.
His tenure here has been a def ... FULL STORY
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| The blame game (03/03/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It is a good lesson — one that I hope will remain in my mental history book — to read about the aftermath of the earthquake in Chile.
Chile is a democratic nation with a solid economy and enviable u ... FULL STORY
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| My Valentine card list (02/10/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I can’t quite pinpoint when it happened. When did my Valentine’s Day become less about romantic love?
When I was cleaning out the attic, I came across a picture of a young man who looked vaguely fam ... FULL STORY
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| Here and Haiti (01/20/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My sister drove me to Rochester early Monday morning. It was my final exam. We had to leave home not terribly early, but earlier than I had been used to being up and at ‘em while on crutches.
It was ... FULL STORY
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| The numbers prove it (01/10/2010) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It’s always gratifying to find that our speculations are in fact proven by empirical evidence. I’m feeling vindicated, and school board member Ted Hazelton should be, too.
We have said on these pages ... FULL STORY
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| Be prepared! (01/06/2010) |
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It’s so hard to make realistic New Year resolutions. Agreed? So I will make one for you: Prepare to die! (Just kidding.)
Actually, I’m only partially kidding. As part of my job, I read obituaries. An ... FULL STORY
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| Over but never done with (12/27/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Well, it’s over. All that shopping frenzy, the last minute panic attacks, the wringing of hands on Christmas Eve, the whooping it up Christmas morning. Done for another year.
Our most beautiful Chris ... FULL STORY
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| Helpless, or living the life of Riley? (12/13/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
When I first saw the movie Gone With the Wind, it amazed me that women could be so helpless that they couldn’t even dress themselves or get themselves a glass of water.
But here I am. Helpless. And i ... FULL STORY
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| Why is Central our business? (11/24/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
An article I read in our last issue piqued my interest, and reminded me that it has been a while since I have written an explanation of how decisions are made about news coverage in the Winona Post.
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| Letters, letters (11/22/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I got a nice note this week from a reader, Alice Schultz Hoffman, who lives at Lake View Court at Winona Health.
First, as I am writing this about lunch time, I’ll pass along that she reports that, ... FULL STORY
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| We’re here for you (11/11/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
For a brief time on Tuesday, our land lines went out, and no one’s cell phone would work, all of us on different provider plans. We briefly panicked, and then things started working again.
But I won ... FULL STORY
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| An international week (11/04/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This has been my international week.
First I received a call from our Brazilian exchange student of ten years ago. She is craving pancakes. Apparently pancakes are not a staple in Brazil. So, I am s ... FULL STORY
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| Through these windows (11/01/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This morning, it occurred to me once again how much I love our bedroom. (I hope that’s not too weird a topic for a newspaper column.)
But it has two windows, one facing southeast and one facing south ... FULL STORY
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| Bluff ordinance: time to be done (10/21/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
People who follow Winona news from afar will often e-mail us to ask why it takes Winona city government so long to make a decision. Why all the committees? Why all the delays?
I fully expect a few e- ... FULL STORY
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| Shuffling and dancing (09/23/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Rivertown Shuffle and Birthday Ball raise local funds
Rivertown Shuffle
Last weekend was a busy one. Friday night was the Rivertown Shuffle, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society held ann ... FULL STORY
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| Time for sensitivity training? (09/13/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We were talking this morning about the 9-11-2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., and how even as short a span as eight years removes that tragedy from the memories of many, many people.
Some have forg ... FULL STORY
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| The Summer of I Don’t Know (08/30/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
There I was, in the middle of the what…Summer of Love? Summer of Evil? Summer of One Giant Leap?…and what was I doing?
I do remember the Walk on the Moon. I also remember the television network repo ... FULL STORY
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| Hope it’s a health care myth (08/26/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“Well,” said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about, “I’m hearing a lot about health care lately. I’m wondering when the President’s Domestic Animal Plan is going to be released.”
“Hmm,” I said. “You ... FULL STORY
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| Excessive speed (08/16/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The mayor wants to talk about “excessive speed” on the bike path.
Before I share my “excessive speed” bike path stories, let me editorialize a bit. In a bigger city, we would probably have separate ... FULL STORY
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| A (blank) is in my future? (08/12/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I didn’t think I was a superstitious person. But why, then, can I not shake this feeling that I have a lack of fortune.
I’ve eaten in Chinese restaurants a fair number of times in my life. (I am in a ... FULL STORY
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| Where’d this rain come from? (08/09/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Here it is Friday afternoon, and the rain is streaming down the window panes in my office. It’s dark, gloomy, and chilly.
Of course! We are expecting company, John’s oldest brother, Lee, and his wif ... FULL STORY
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| Sucking the life out of Levee Park (07/22/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
And the winner of the longest running ad hoc committee commissioned by the city of Winona is…
My vote would go to the people who have signed on to the redesign, reuse, renovation, restoration, reinv ... FULL STORY
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| American Dog? (07/19/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
When I walked into the family room, there was the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about on his pillow. But when he saw me, there was a great deal of commotion and rustling of paper.
“Are you hiding somet ... FULL STORY
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| Whose face was good to go (07/08/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My granddaughter is in the verbal stage at which she can repeat long, complicated phrases verbatim, although on occasion she gets a word wrong here and there. She also is into singing.
The singing a ... FULL STORY
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| PEEVED at PETA (06/21/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
“You humans are the most interesting animals,” said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about.
“I think so,” I said.
“I use the word interesting in its abnormal sense,” he said. “I simply cannot underst ... FULL STORY
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| Life’s milestones (06/10/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I met a man at my niece Katie’s graduation party this past weekend who said he doesn’t like to read my columns about dogs or grandchildren. So, this is for you: Stop reading right now.
It was a weeke ... FULL STORY
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| What sort of grandma can I be (06/03/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
You know the old saying that we grandparents like to throw around: You can just love ‘em and spoil ‘em and when they get cranky, you can send ‘em home.
But being a grandparent is more than that. App ... FULL STORY
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| Moving on out (05/03/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I was deep into my closet, ferreting out evidence of my past bad taste and reliving mistakes in judgment, when the-dog-who-must-not-be-written-about came up behind me and scared me half to death.
“Ar ... FULL STORY
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| A mother’s tears (04/08/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My birthday is December 2, as a kid usually a special day. But my birthday in 1958 marked the first time I remember seeing my mother cry.
We lived in a middle-class neighborhood. We had everything I ... FULL STORY
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| Say no to free autos for Venezuela (04/01/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a press conference early this morning asked President Obama to consider sending free Detroit automobiles to Venezuela.
In the press conference, which can be seen ... FULL STORY
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| Old age needn’t be tragic (03/29/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It’s always dangerous for a columnist to write about sensitive issues, especially ones that are divisive, personal, and in this case, about fears that we bury deep inside.
I read articles in the Twin ... FULL STORY
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| Cuts that don’t hurt (03/22/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
People say it’s “hell” getting old, but they are usually referring to the way the body tends to break down with age.
When I think about that statement, I think of such things as how many times I’ve ... FULL STORY
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| But where is the river? (03/15/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The city of Winona, lately, has been exceptionally good at only one thing: getting rid of assets, with no good plan to replace them with anything of value, or in most cases, anything at all.
The late ... FULL STORY
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| Did you smell the dirt? (03/08/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
One of our sales reps, KC Saxon, came in the other day and said, “I love it outside, it smells like dirt!” It’s been a long time since I’ve smelled dirt, the real kind that you can grow corn and bea ... FULL STORY
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| My House of Unconditional Love (03/01/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
My friends ask me how my two-year-old granddaughter is handling the interloper, the adorable Andie, who is now five weeks old.
Well, the answer is that she is doing well. But watching her adjust to t ... FULL STORY
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| Deciding who shall suffer (02/22/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The dog-who-must-not-be-written-about wandered sleepily into the kitchen, where I was doing some figuring on my calculator.
“What on earth are you doing?” he asked, “And what is that machine?”
“I’m ... FULL STORY
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| What Winona has needed (02/04/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I bet you don’t know what Winona doesn’t have that hundreds of other cities have?
Give up? (Maybe you had a few guesses, but not the one I’m thinking of.)
Before I tell you, let me say that I had a ... FULL STORY
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| At your service…sometimes (02/01/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Whenever you think you’d really like the government to run health care, just remember the U.S. Post Office.
The latest moneysaving idea is to deliver mail five rather than six days a week — great! Af ... FULL STORY
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| What’s on your ‘In’ list (01/25/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
All the big city newspapers run an “In-Out” list in January telling their readers what’s “so 2008” (that phrase was out in 2002, I think), and what will be HOT in 2009, and nowhere did I see the words ... FULL STORY
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| It’s Girl Scout cookie time! (01/14/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Just when the winter seems bleakest — two to four inches of snow, blowing snow, 30-mile-an-hour winds and a windchill of 20 to 30 below! — a little sunshine comes into my life.
It’s Girl Scout Cookie ... FULL STORY
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| The miracle of adoption (01/07/2009) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Friends of ours, Bruce and Margaret Johnson, late last month became grandparents when their son Hansi and his wife, also a Margaret, adopted a son.
Baby Tae was born in Korea, and is about ten month ... FULL STORY
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| What do seniors really want? (11/09/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The report on a survey of middle-aged and older Winonans asking if they would like a new senior center was quite telling.
The representative of the company hired to find out what seniors want in term ... FULL STORY
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| Learning to talk (10/22/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Language fascinates me. My granddaughter fascinates me. Put the two together, and I’m surprised I have any room left in my life for anything but watching her language development.
I’m not a linguist ... FULL STORY
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| Pandora’s Box (10/15/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
When I was a kid, I read a version of the Pandora’s Box story written for children. Every now and then, the story pops into my mind.
Pandora is from Greek mythology, and in most versions of the story ... FULL STORY
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| A trip to Trout Valley (10/08/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
I’m always conflicted about fall. On the one hand, it is the front door of winter. But on the other hand, it’s beautiful, and when it’s good, it is very, very good.
Last Saturday was one of those ver ... FULL STORY
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| Are you harboring junk? (09/24/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We have a hard time in our family getting rid of things we no longer need or use. Why? I have a few ideas.
1. My upbringing. My parents saved everything. When you have six kids, there’s a real compul ... FULL STORY
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| When roads became rivers (08/31/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The book — why, how, where is it available
Almost simultaneously in early 2008, Winona Post sales rep KC Saxon and I proposed the idea of a book that would be a lasting history of the floods of Au ... FULL STORY
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| Oh, oh! They opened the barn door (08/17/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
In preparing for today’s paper, I was scrolling through the Winona City Council agenda.
“Oh, oh!” I said aloud.
“What? What?” asked the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about.
I wasn’t anxious to enter ... FULL STORY
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| Winona, on the map (08/13/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It was an all-Winona weekend, except we weren’t here.
We drove up to Minneapolis to visit former Winonans Bernie and Jan Wagnild, whom we met when they lived here and ran Wagnild Chevrolet on Huff St ... FULL STORY
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| Celebrating 50 years (08/06/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
We had an unusual mini vacation, a road trip to see family, something we haven’t done since the kids were little and we trekked to Massachusetts to see my folks many summers.
This time, we were off t ... FULL STORY
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| Why I’m not an actress (07/23/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
A visit from a classmate from the College of Saint Teresa, Jacque Szopinski Wheeler, whom I haven't seen since we tearfully parted after our graduation ceremonies, has put me in a reverie.
Jacque and ... FULL STORY
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| Visitors from New Jersey (07/20/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Is there a word for the relationship between us and our kids' in-laws? If yes, I'd like to know, and if not, I'd like to know why not.
Morgan's in-laws, Andy and Barbara, are visiting from Barnegat, ... FULL STORY
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| ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is fun (07/13/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
As if there isn't enough to do in Winona during the summer "” Shakespeare Festival, Beethoven Festival, river, lake, Aquatic Center, golf, tennis, biking, fishing, boating, Drops and Drama, HCO music ... FULL STORY
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| Learning the grandmother biz (07/09/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
You would think that grandmothering would be like riding a bike. Once you've learned to mother, it's supposed to be easier to grandmother. "Just spoil them and love them and send them home."¯
But let ... FULL STORY
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| Why such bad test scores? (07/02/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
It will be interesting to hear the education insiders explain the most recent state testing scores, especially the dismal performance by eleventh graders statewide on the math test.
Let's make some p ... FULL STORY
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| Unique ‘Taming’ delights (06/29/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Mummers plays, Commedia dell'Arte, gypsy fairs, Ringling Brothers Circus, vaudeville, Laugh In, Cirque du Soleil, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett"¦are you getting a picture?
The Taming of the Shrew, wh ... FULL STORY
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| Studying Shakespeare (06/01/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
John and I are back in school. Well, sort of. We've joined a dozen other people in studying The Merchant of Venice, one of this year's offerings of the Great River Shakespeare Festival.
The group is ... FULL STORY
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| What are the odds? (05/28/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
The phone rang on Monday morning, and my friend Karen Littlejohn said, "I thought you'd want to know"¦"¯
Our mutual friends, Randy and Gloria Miller, after retiring from Winona State, recently moved ... FULL STORY
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| Memorial Day Ā Ā"” what for? (05/25/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Call me a stick-in-the-mud fuddy-duddy, but I liked the year better when holidays fell on the days they were supposed to fall on, not a random Monday that makes it easier for everyone to have a three- ... FULL STORY
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| Did the rain end yet? (04/27/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
"I'm worried about you,"¯ said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about.
"Save it,"¯ I said.
"See, that's what I mean!"¯ he said. "All you do is sit around on the couch and stare out the window."¯
"So ... FULL STORY
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| Here’s an idea (03/30/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Don't you love people who always have an idea of what other people should do? Good, I'm glad you do, because I'm one of those people.
Today I have an idea for the city concerning the old Chrysler dea ... FULL STORY
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| When we’re sick (03/16/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
People always ask me, "Don't you ever run out of things to write about?"¯
Unless you want to read about how I've spent the last three days in bed, dead to the world until I start coughing and wake m ... FULL STORY
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| Congrats to County Commissioners (03/12/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Congratulations are in order to the Winona County Board of Commissioners, and in particular, Commissioner Jim Pomeroy.
What so often happens when we vote for our government representatives, all the ... FULL STORY
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| Who needs a vacation? (02/06/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
"I need a vacation!"¯ said the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about. "I just want to lie on the beach and read trashy novels and drink margaritas."¯
"Excuse me?"¯ I said. "Somehow this does not compute. ... FULL STORY
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| Nice things happening (01/20/2008) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
This time of year it's nice to have something to do that takes your mind off the cold and your eyes off the ice. This past week I had two such opportunities.
First, I went to the Winona Health Auxili ... FULL STORY
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| Derdowski’s poem translated from Kashubian (12/05/2007) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
On Tuesday morning two visitors came in out of the cold bearing a gift, a small book, a translation from the Kashubian of a poem by the famous Winona Wiarus newspaperman Hieronim Derdowski.
The poem ... FULL STORY
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| Adventures in the kitchen (11/25/2007) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
How many meals have I cooked in my kitchen, I wonder. And so far, against all odds, I haven't burned it down.
Before we got the new stove, which isn't all that new, we couldn't use the broiler witho ... FULL STORY
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| He’d better be thankful (11/21/2007) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
So, I said to the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about, what are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
"Oh, let's see,"¯ he mused, "should I say ‘all the dry dog food I want to eat' or maybe it woul ... FULL STORY
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| Chinese or pizza? (10/14/2007) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
John and the new dog went Up North, to hunt grouse. This leaves me and the dog-who-must-not-be-written-about to our own devices. To me, this means Chinese food and a trip to the video store.
There ar ... FULL STORY
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| To get flood dollars, you must apply by Oct. 22 (10/07/2007) |
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By Frances Edstrom --
Yesterday, we were visited by Kevin Kelleher and Carl Sherrill. They were looking for help. Kelleher, of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, and Sherrill, from the U.S. S ... | | | |
