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My baby cousin, Harper, was born exactly a week befroe my birthday. Between Oct. 10 and Oct. 17 I feel as if I'm allowed to celebrate for a week straight.
Harper is a lot like how you would imagine most 4-year-olds, but somehow she's just a little bit more. I don't typically hang out with children...
Today, Feb. 8, is national Laugh and Get Rich Day, according to the good folks at timeanddate.com, a website featuring good-humored holidays for every day of the week. (Jan. 7 was “Old Rock Day,” Jan. 17 was “Ditch New Year’s Resolution Day,” Jan. 20 was “Penguin Awareness Day,” and Jan. 21 was “...
Minnesota’s high court will soon face a major decision regarding cameras in the courtrooms across the state.
For more than two years, a pilot project has allowed news organizations to capture video and photographs inside some sentencing proceedings - mostly murder trials and other high profile...
I suprisingly get lost quite often.
I don't particularly like to let on that I am lost, as it typically wounds my pride. I don't do well with vague directions. Or any directions. While I don’t like to pass blame, I’m just going to blame it on my grandmother. Children don’t just get lost, someone...
I don't know about this back-to-school thing. Buy the books and a notebook or two, get the student ID card, find the right classroom, get ready to learn.
Again.
Holy J. Moley.
Have wanted to do “something different” for a while now. A light flashed on in the ol’ cerebral cortex and I mumbled...
As a 15 year old, I remember being humbled in receiving a couple of state awards for photos I took for my hometown newspaper where I worked throughout high school, and being in awe of the professional journalists who captured many of the big awards. They seemed like giants in the newspaper industry...
It's suddenly prom season.
Unbeknown to me, the season has crept up on us. While the date still lies three months away, my friends have taken no notice of it. They are concerned with much more then the fact that prom is still three months away. We have to get ready now.
This minor fact was left...
It's offically Super Bowl season. The sports worl turns its attention to Minnesota.
Millions of Americans will be watching as the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles afec off in the big ga,e. which will be held in Minneapolis, just 75 miles northeast of Kasson.
Through 18 weeks, the...
Is this Winter of the Walking Dead, or what?
It seems like everyone is sick. We're hacking away, battling fever, the chills and the hot sweats, taking medication and sleeping long hours, hoping whatever it is runs its course- STAT (from the Latin word ‘statum,’ or ‘immediately,’ according to...
As we got dumped on with snow earlier this week, I primarily dtayed indoors and enjoyed the beauty of it all.
But soon panic overcame me as I looked outside to see massive amounts of snow- more than I recall seeing in quite some time.
I always get a little nervous when my snow-blower sits idle in...
