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    April 12, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Goodbye and Hello!
    After filing about 760 consecutive weekly columns, it is necessary for me to take a hiatus––not because I am tired, or have run out of wind. No, I am off on a new venture which requires me to suspend the column for a time.
    newsApril 12, 2014 - 7:30am
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    April 5, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Opening Day
    Another baseball season begins with nobody, including myself, expecting much of our Minnesota Twins. The satellite dish company sends a nice letter every three days urging me to hook the dish back up for a reduced rate. If they had given me the same reduced rate last August, I might...
    newsApril 5, 2014 - 9:19pm
    March 29, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Sacred Ground
    Eleven years ago, I spent a September in Europe. First, I took the train around England. The countryside is “lovely,” as the Brits say, groomed and prim. Then across France, Switzerland and Italy. I stayed in cities, but enjoyed the farm country—at least when those...
    newsMarch 29, 2014 - 9:00am
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    March 22, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Art therapy
    If ever there was a winter to miss, this was the one. Arriving home the second week of March means I get to experience a little of the fun, anyway. Does absence make the heart grow fonder? Do I miss anything at all about a northern Minnesota winter? Open questions,...
    opinion / featured columnistsMarch 22, 2014 - 11:30am
    March 8, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: We're all phonies
    It’s not just the kids. Last week, I observed an retired Midwestern gentleman walking his golden retriever near the beach. I heard his phone beep. A text message had arrived. He pulled off the sidewalk, dug out his phone, and sat on a bench. As he read the message,...
    opinion / featured columnistsMarch 8, 2014 - 12:00pm
    February 22, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Beach culture
    We in the Upper Midwest see Southern California through the lens of television, and frankly, what we often see are a bunch of flakes. On the ground in Southern California, the reality is, yes, people here are unleashed from the constraints we feel back home. And good for...
    opinion / featured columnistsFebruary 22, 2014 - 10:00am
    February 15, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: California coast
    Yes, a person can get homesick every now and then when gone south for the winter. But there is a cure: call home. Doesn’t matter who. Just call any number in the 218 or 701 area code. Listen to the desperation, the depression, the rage on the other end. Feel the subzero cold...
    opinion / featured columnistsFebruary 15, 2014 - 6:00am
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    February 1, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Temple visit
    While in Arizona, I have my own private Minister of Culture, my cousin Tina of Scottsdale. In the past weeks, we have visited two art exhibits and the botanical gardens. I also attended a theological discussion and a Bach pipe organ concert. I wouldn’t have known...
    opinion / featured columnistsFebruary 1, 2014 - 1:30am
    January 24, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: At the zoo
    The Reid Park Zoo in downtown Tucson celebrated the birth of a baby tapir a couple of weeks ago. The tapir is an endangered and bizarre creature from South America. It looks like a pig with an elephant’s trunk, but it is related more to rhinos and horses than pigs. It...
    opinion / featured columnistsJanuary 24, 2014 - 5:30pm
    January 17, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Senility etiquette
    A question of manners: What is the proper way to inform a friend that you have already heard the story they have started to tell for the fifty-third time? Equally vexing: What is the proper thing do when the look on the faces of others makes it clear you have embarked a story they...
    featured columnistsJanuary 17, 2014 - 10:30pm
    January 11, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Oil... Boom!
    The oil boom hit Casselton, North Dakota last week in a big way. With a couple of big booms, the myth that crude oil which moves through our towns on long trains won't explode went up in smoke. If an oil train derailed in a major city, the consequences could be dire. Other myths...
    featured columnistsJanuary 11, 2014 - 10:00am
    January 4, 2014
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Guatemalan Grandma
    A tiny Guatemalan restaurant is my favorite here in Tucson. In the kitchen, Guatemalan Grandma produces delicious food which I chronicled here a few years back. I still go there weekly. Guatemalan Grandma must think I am still growing: The pile on my plate mounds higher with every...
    featured columnists / newsJanuary 4, 2014 - 5:00am
    December 27, 2013
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Tucson Mamas
    One thing about city living: You can go days without any outside social contact other than the checkers at the store! The checkers here are friendly. They tend to be retirees. Quite a few are "Tucson Mamas," a name cooked up by outsiders for female Tucson natives. Tucson Mamas...
    featured columnistsDecember 27, 2013 - 11:52pm
    December 21, 2013
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Wisdom of the Aged
    Flew home from Tucson a few days last week for an early Christmas with family. I discovered anew why I went to Tucson in the first place. The high temperature during my brief visit home was one degree above zero. Lows hit -25 F. I dragged my Ford Ranger out of the shed to serve...
    featured columnists / familyDecember 21, 2013 - 5:00am
    December 14, 2013
    COUNTRY SCRIBE: Christmas list
    Count me amongst the world's fortunate: I cannot for the life of me think of one thing I want for Christmas. I walked up and down the mall the other day. It all bored me. Only the pet store drew me in with its cuteness and possibility, but five minutes of that thought was enough....
    featured columnistsDecember 14, 2013 - 6:00am
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