ERIC BERGESON
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ERIC BERGESON: Peanut butter is good as any excuse to go to town 
My grandfather had a thing for peanut butter. He ate it by the spoonful.
It couldn’t be just any peanut butter. It had to be organic peanut butter with a layer of clear grease on top to prove that it was unpasteurized.
What’s more, Grandpa was of the belief that organic unpasteurized peanut butter could only be purchased one place and one place only: At the grocery store in his old home town of Twin Valley, Minn.
By Eric Bergeson , August 16, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Taking advantage of traffic jams
Believe me, I understand road rage. I’ll never act on it, but I spend the entire traffic jam plotting revenge against those who think they’re exempt from the rules they should have learned in kindergarten.
Once traffic moves again, my anger usually subsides and I am no longer a danger to society.
July 26, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Vivid memories of summer vacation
Sometime during the summer of 1970, Dad and Mom loaded sister and I up in our old car, drove to Fargo, traded for a brand new Ford LTD station wagon and without even going home to show off the new car, headed for the West Coast.
That started a summer family tradition. For the next 10 years, every summer of my childhood, an epic trip was an expected ritual.
July 12, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Think twice before turning your life over to technology
My latest vehicle, unlike the primitive previous one, is loaded with technological gadgets that make your life easier.
For instance, if I scream out a song title at the rear-view mirror, the computer will start playing one of the 5,000 songs on my iPod. It never gets the right one, but sometimes it gets pretty close.
Then I can holler who I want to call and the car will shut off the stereo, hook up to the phone in my pocket and dial approximately the person I said.
By Eric Bergeson , July 05, 2009
ERIC BERGESON: Open water
People love the water!
Why else would they drive miles and pay millions to spend a few weekends per year on the edge of a lake?
There’s something calming about a body of water, and not just a lake. People close to oceans or rivers say the same, at least when the waters aren’t stirred by floods and hurricanes.
It seems that looking out at a body of water, churning or still, really mellows a person out.
By Eric Bergeson , June 21, 2009
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THE LIST: Eli Young Band ... George Jones ... etc.
Eli Young Band
- Thursday at Dakota Magic: The Eli Young Band will play at Dakota Magic Casino, Hankinson, N.D., on June 25. Recently nominated for the Academy of Country Music Awards, the Eli Young Band has a song on the charts with “Always the Love Songs.” Dakota Magic Casino is located just off Interstate 29 on the North Dakota/South Dakota border. Tickets/info: (800) 325-6825, ext 488.
By Staff reports , June 19, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: The only thing we have to fear is lack of fear itself
“People need to realize,” Hank said in a suddenly scholarly tone, “that the only thing we have to fear is the lack of fear itself!”
Either that, I thought to myself, or we should worry about angry old men glued to their computers in their musty basements, longing for the days when they mattered.
By Eric Bergeson , June 14, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Living things are beautiful to the extent that they are temporary
This is probably the most beautiful week of the year. The petals of the flowering crab blooms have started to drop while the lilacs are just opening for one sensual, scented week of bloom.
Unfortunately, for most people this week is also the busiest week of the year. People are as busy as the bees on the blooms.
By Eric Bergeson , June 07, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Prairie prosperity?
Forbes publisher, Rich Karlgaard, is optimistic about the economic future of the heartlandTimes are changing, and for the first time in 90 years, they might be changing in our favor. Instead of seeing small farm towns as places from which to escape, the world may soon see them as places that have a competitive advantage. Who knows, in another 50 years the prairie countryside may once again have more people above ground than below.
By Eric Bergeson , May 31, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: Dandelions
instead of pouring chemical on our lawns to eradicate every last dandelion, perhaps it is time we learned to love the weed.
Once you learn to love a weed, of course, it ceases to be a weed. You don’t have to pull it, spray it or curse at it.
If we return to a child-like love of dandelions, our lives would be a whole lot easier and safer.
Who knows, dandelions may even make us rich!
By Eric Bergeson , May 24, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: The true route to happiness lies in having the right toys
After years of cruel and unusual delays, during the spring of fifth-grade I was finally granted the birthright of every country-born male-child: A Honda 50 motorbike.
By Eric Bergeson , May 17, 2009
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ERIC BERGESON: I want peace and a quiet conscience, and I am willing to pay for it
State budget shortfalls in Minnesota have squeezed school districts, nursing homes and local governments in a vise. The higher-ups in St. Paul don’t have an easy job, but the officials at the bottom of the food chain have it worse.
By Eric Bergeson , May 10, 2009
ERIC BERGESON: Mating rituals
In spring, when love is in the air, it’s hard to get a good night’s sleepWhen the mating instincts kick in, animals do truly strange things. Sandhill cranes bounce up and down as if they’re jumping on the bed. Swans bob their heads. Mockingbirds imitate as many other birds as possible. And that’s just birds.
By Eric Bergeson , May 03, 2009
ERIC BERGESON: Boyle is a triumph of the ordinary in a world of phonies
There’s something about Susan Boyle. The British spinster with the astonishing voice has taken the world by storm in a single week.
No need to worry if her career will be a success. Boyle’s already brought tears to the eyes of tens of millions of people. What more could a karaoke singer ever want?
By Eric Bergeson , April 26, 2009
ERIC BERGESON: Baseball's charm
Like good history, baseball entertains best when colorful, offbeat characters perform grand deeds.
By Eric Bergeson , April 12, 2009
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