What type of “New Year Resolution” person are you? Are you the totally organized one – you’ve got a carefully detailed list of challenging but…
A few weeks ago, I caught myself saying “have a nice day” to a co-worker as I left the office. That might sound benign enough to most, except …
Seems like such a simple saying. So why is it so hard? All relationships have their ups and downs, that’s just how they work. Having disagreem…
When you speak, do people listen? When others are sharing, do you listen or are the wheels of defense and response already spinning up?
Sometime back in the early 1970s, I had a Christmas revelation.
Several months ago, while enjoying a meal at a local restaurant, a man sitting in the booth next to me said he reads my columns often and part…
I’m trying to figure out what it’s going to take to convince the unvaccinated people out there that there is nothing to be afraid of. If there…
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It’s been 14 years since I looked across the aisle of a Sun Country airplane and stared at a sleeping old man. He looked like a child lulled t…
It’s almost impossible to complete a holiday shopping list without a visit or two to a big box store.
Stability is often an elusive puzzle piece in our world.
Recently, I was informed by Facebook that two of my nephews had just set a Guinness world record for most consecutive ultimate flying disc (Fr…
What does a dentist, an elevator boring contractor, a law enforcement officer and a farmer living in Minnesota have in common?
Why do some people insist on having a messy yard? I’ll never understand it. Is it the old “the guy with the most stuff in the yard wins” menta…
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It’s been two and half years since I’ve come on board at the Messenger. Boy that time went fast! But like how time flies, life changes.
Most likely, if you are of a certain Christian faith who baptize their youth, you have been asked at least once to be a godfather or godmother…
If you’ve ever heard Garage Logic on the radio with Joe Soucheray, you’ll understand the title and know what I’m talking about. If not, it’s w…
Not only is the government breaking through the debt ceiling, they’re crashing through it.
There were a dozen or so Roman Catholic sponsored grade schools scattered across the city of St. Cloud in the 1950s. Holy Spirit was the newes…
I don’t like mice. I don’t like seeing them in a cage, running crazily on a treadmill wheel. I don’t like seeing them skitter about in the woo…
We judge elected officials based on their position on the issues we care about. We may cast our ballot for candidates that most represent the …
At first, Covid didn’t have much of an affect on my life other than being conscious of the usual precautions. But in March of 2020, it seemed …
The Mille Lacs County Board of Commissioners and county officials regularly meet in closed sessions during county board meetings with their at…
One of the many inconveniences as a result of the world-wide COVID pandemic over the past 18 months has been the disruption of the normal fune…
It was September of 2001 and we had just moved into the house we built on the land I grew up on. The kids were young and life was good. Long w…
Most of us were raised with the mantra, “don’t spend more than you have.”
As so eloquently put by the legendary Alan Jackson: Where were you when the world stopped turning on Sept. 11? If you are old enough to have a…
We expected to go to a wedding in mid July in which I planned to photograph but received a text from the bride and groom saying the groom had …
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