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| Al Owne in the kitchen (05/05/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
Boy what a disappointment! I had a column all arranged in my head that went something like this. Last Friday the temperature finally decided to be spring-like and jumped up into the 70s. My winter ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (04/28/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
In my kitchen, it’s either not enough or too much. Last week, I wrote about my cupboards being bare, similar to Old Mother Hubbard’s. I cured that quickly by heading to the local grocery. I purchas ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (04/21/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
As I write this, I’m filled with sadness over the Boston bombing and the horrific plant explosion in West, Texas. In both cases there was loss of life and injury to hundreds of innocent people includ ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (04/14/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I did it. What a feeling of accomplishment! I successfully whipped up a batch of waffles Sunday morning. You know what my secret to success was? I wasn’t afraid of the waffle making routine. That ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (04/07/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I often get questions from non-widowed friends about what it’s like living alone after being with someone for over 50 years. I was thinking about that the other day when I was getting ready for a med ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (03/31/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I got a lesson in waffle making the other day. One of my children, hearing of my waffle woes, called and said he was coming to give me a lesson in Waffle Making 101. He arrived with a large shopping ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (03/10/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I evaluated my house cleaning the other day. I was sitting in the bedroom and I thought I detected a little dust under the tall dresser. “I wonder when I last cleaned under there,” I thought. I dra ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (02/24/2013) |
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“If I would have known you were coming….” Yes, I successfully baked a chocolate cake the other day. It turned out so well it was surprising. I think the reason for my success was that I just did it o ... FULL STORY
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| Minority reporter (02/24/2013) |
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By Sarah Squires --
My husband follows technology. From afar, I should say; we are old fashioned, real book reading people who don’t jump to embrace every new device that hits the streets. And for the most part, he lik ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (02/17/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
People describe people by saying, “She didn’t suffer fools very well.” My wife fit that saying, but you could also add, “…or spendthrifts!” We started out poor and she didn’t want to go back even if ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (02/10/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
Let me start with a little tip for those of you who have been forced into the unfamiliar confines of the kitchen. Do not leave a metal spoon in a pan which is over a hot burner especially on a gas st ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (02/03/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
My latest kitchen disaster was due to a mixture of overconfidence and failure to read directions. Well, and maybe some kitchen cluelessness, also.
After my last partial success with waffles, I deci ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (01/27/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I received some feedback on my last column about merchants putting roadblocks in my shopping trips. Most people agreed with me.
Speaking of shopping, men will understand this problem; I don’t know ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (01/20/2013) |
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Merchants have added a new obstacle to my shopping forays. Now it seems that every business has some kind of special card to use to get good deals. In most stores I really don’t shop enough to make t ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (01/13/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I got a little overconfident in the kitchen again. I usually make my Sunday morning pancakes with a simple mix. All I have to do is put a cup of the mix in a bowl (I actually use a large plastic mea ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (01/06/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
The big three emotional holidays for us widowed folks are gone now: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s have passed and now we can look forward to Easter. Each of these days has memories for some ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (12/30/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
As usual, my kitchen disasters are followed by something that turns out well. Many columns ago I told you I had some apprehension about using the sewing machine. Well, there’s an item in the kitchen ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (12/23/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
The old saying, “It’s an ill wind that blows no good,” is an apt saying when looking back on my last cookie disaster. While cleaning the stove top, which was covered with melted butter, I found using ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (12/16/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I had been waiting for a snowy day, but I didn’t need anything like Sunday. I wanted to start my winter baking schedule, which is always good for a few laughs and many frustrations.
I started off wi ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (12/09/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I wonder who the brilliant soul was who came up with the idea to dress food preparation people (cooks) and food distribution people (servers) in black? Those employed in the food business have histor ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (12/02/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Well, it’s one down and two to go. I’m talking about holidays. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas and New Years are fast approaching. I’m not forgetting Hanukkah, but it still makes two more if you ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (11/25/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Well, I whipped up and baked my pumpkin pies for the dessert part of our Thanksgiving feast. One looked terrible, but tasted good; the other looked great, but tasted so, so. I’m batting 500 which is ... FULL STORY
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| Family memories (11/25/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
If I seems that I am in love with the Haake family (story on page 1a), it is because I am. Ruth (Haake) Bublitz, who generously shared family memories with us this week, is my husband’s grandma. (I su ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (11/18/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
According to the media, we must be approaching the big Holiday Season, eh? The special toy sections in the big box stores have been unveiled and my mail box is filling up with catalogs that I receive ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (11/11/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Maybe I’m approaching my kitchen disasters wrong. I read an article telling me not to apologize for my cooking calamities, just change the name. I think she’s talking to someone who makes a minor err ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (11/04/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Summer must be over. The bird bath is frozen in the mornings, the leaves are falling off the trees, and I finished my Summer Sludge this weekend. You know the stuff you make in the spring in an ice ... FULL STORY
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| And So, To Bed (11/04/2012) |
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By Vicki Englich --
I resisted bedtime as a child. I dawdled, taking my sweet time to put away my toys for the night. As a woman of a certain age, I now have no trouble surrendering to slumber, but I still find myself ... FULL STORY
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| Murder mystery (10/31/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
When I was a kid, we didn’t have the game Clue, so any chance I had to play it was always accompanied by the excitement of a sleep-over or other fun adventure away from home. Figuring out “whodunit” u ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (10/24/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I had a minor kitchen emergency last week. Minor might be a little too mild a term to use, but there was no fire nor even a wisp of smoke involved, and it had nothing to do with the microwave. I und ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (10/17/2012) |
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Are your closets messy? Do you have trouble finding that favorite outfit—male or female? I read a fairly large article recently that promised to take care of those problems. This person promises to ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (10/10/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I tried a new twist in my microwave cooking. I found a Banquet family lasagna dinner tucked away in the freezer. I have no idea why I bought it; it was way too big for me to eat at one time. I decide ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (09/26/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I sat at breakfast reading the cereal box, as I often do, and it told me that if I keep eating this particular cereal for a month, I can lose one size. You know they’re right. I’ve been eating this ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (09/16/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I don’t know whether to write this as a product warning or another kitchen microwave disaster. I took my last on sale Banquet pot pie out of the freezer for lunch. I was going to put it in the oven ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (09/05/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Living alone, I get a lot of advice on how to survive from people who don’t live alone. Something I’ve been hearing lately is, “You should get a dog to keep you company.”
This raises some questions. ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (08/29/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
I did it! I baked a cake all by myself. There was this cake mix sitting on a shelf in my pull-out pantry and I kept moving it. Finally I said, “That’s it; you’re getting baked.” It was a little ol ... FULL STORY
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| Baby face (08/26/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
I’ve always had a round face, with chubby cheeks that bend and stretch with every goofy expression, a little “butt chin” poking out. (And when a boy in one of my classes informed me of this term in gr ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (08/22/2012) |
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By Al Owne --
Things were pretty quiet in the kitchen this past week. Of course I ate out three times and fixed some prepared meals a couple of times and that helps. Oh there were the usual spills and goof ups of ... FULL STORY
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| Reclining (08/12/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
I am sitting right now on the end of a reclining couch, a pillow tucked under every possible inch of me, my calves squeezed into T.E.D. socks with red textured hospital booties providing the necessary ... FULL STORY
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| Sherwood, a cat (08/08/2012) |
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By Cynthya Porter --
There comes a point in every parent’s life when you realize that for however prim and proper you think you’ve raised your kids to be, there will still be times when they do obnoxiously vile things to ... FULL STORY
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| Loving Winona (07/08/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
The other day I spied a photo an out-of-town friend had posted on the internet, a rosy sunset against rippling water. An L-shaped dock cast shadows across the glassy reflective pond; the sky held long ... FULL STORY
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| For the mentors (07/04/2012) |
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By Sarah Squires --
When I was in fifth grade (or so), I came home one day with an assignment: write a one-page paper about what started W.W.II.
While I realize now that the events leading up to U.S. involvement in the ... FULL STORY
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| The man behind the curtain (06/27/2012) |
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By Cynthya Porter --
I’d like to tell you a story about John Edstrom. And my kids. And about how trampolines are stupid. And how even a book with the seemingly hardest cover can open to contain pages filled with gentle ... FULL STORY
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| Learning is for life (12/14/2011) |
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By Sarah Squires --
Picture this: a few years back, Chris and I, along with my mom and brother, were visiting my grandma Tilly in Florida. Chris and Grandma Tilly were standing on the steps leading down to the beach as t ... FULL STORY
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| Thanks for every day, everyday (11/30/2011) |
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By Sarah Squires --
I have a friend who is constantly reminding everyone what day it is. Not like ‘Hey it’s hump day.’ More like ‘Hey, today is National Parfait Day, so stick a cherry on that,’ or ‘It’s National Clean Ou ... FULL STORY
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| Still me, just Mrs. (11/27/2011) |
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By Sarah Squires --
For being a news hound, I must confess that I have been keeping a bit of big news in the Sarah world from you.
I got married!
You might have noticed my new moniker, and it is still the Elmquist Sar ... FULL STORY
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| Baby, you can jump my car (10/02/2011) |
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By Sarah Squires --
I have anxieties about things that can kill you, or me. That sounds all too logical, but the fact is that I have to work to control fears about super duper random and unlikely things that could kill m ... FULL STORY
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| Summer’s coming - PLAYtime! (04/27/2011) |
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By Paul Barnes --
In two very short weeks most of the GRSF 2011 Season company will arrive in Winona, ready to dig into the work of producing this summer’s Festival. The center of our labor will be productions of Shak ... FULL STORY
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| To pause or not to pause (04/03/2011) |
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City Hall and the County Government Center on Main Street might only be a few blocks away from one another, but they are different worlds, for many reasons. As the resident government reporter on Seco ... FULL STORY
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| Setting the Stage for the next decade (03/30/2011) |
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By Paul Barnes --
Mark Hauck, Alec Wild, and I first talked about establishing a theatre company in Minnesota over dinner during a storm that dropped six inches of snow on Minneapolis. The date — April 30, 2002 — stic ... FULL STORY
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| Shakespeare kicks butt (02/23/2011) |
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By Paul Barnes --
I’m writing from Syracuse, New York, where I begin rehearsals this week for a production of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s play about Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, which I’m directing at Syra ... FULL STORY
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| Mystery garden (05/30/2010) |
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By Sarah Squires --
My experiences with flower gardening are not much to brag about. But if you came out to my new little abode planted next to Merrick State Park, you might think that there was at least a little color i ... FULL STORY
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| Going country (01/27/2010) |
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By Sarah Squires --
In summer, every guest is a surprise. The forest is thick with greenery, blocking the telltale signs, muffling the whistle of the train as it squeals past, blocking out the highway and its parade of l ... FULL STORY
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| Now you’ve gone and done it (12/27/2009) |
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By Paul Barnes --
During this, our annual seeming-to-hibernate period of off-season dormancy, we’ve received encouraging signs from the world outside Southeastern Minnesota. Clearly, people are taking notice of Winona ... FULL STORY
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| A culture of giving (06/20/2007) |
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Giving comes down to an individual desire to make our society better. A community with a strong commitment to giving - be it money, time or other resources - is a community that cares about, and for, ... FULL STORY
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| The impact of tourism on the Winona area (05/23/2007) |
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Over the past decade, travel and tourism in the United States have grown tremendously, and this rapid growth has raised awareness of this industry, especially in the cities and towns known for tourism ... FULL STORY
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| The art of bathing Raisin (05/20/2007) |
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By Sarah Squires --
Owning a dog can be one of the most fulfilling experiences in life, a unique and deep friendship, a pleasant sort of codependence. As in any relationship, there are the unsavory factors, including cho ... FULL STORY
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| Experiencing success (05/31/2006) |
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By Paul Durand --
As we come to the end of yet another school year, our thoughts turn to the many successes of the past and our dreams for the future. Have you ever wondered why our American culture seems to clamor so ... FULL STORY
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| Keeping connected with time and distance (01/04/2006) |
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From: Marian Carroll
Every few months a large envelope arrives in our mailbox. It contains an expected treat -- one I've been receiving for many years. This time it came in the midst of the Chris ... FULL STORY
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| Happy Endings (03/06/2005) |
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By Linda Lewis --
Listen up, baby boomers. It's time to learn a thing or two about something that could save your life.
When my doctor recommended a colonoscopy I suddenly sat up very straight, cringed and made a tor ... FULL STORY
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