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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Stadium backers don't believe everything they read
Dont believe everything you read, especially in sports blogs and columns about government issues. That is what some Minnesota politicians say after dealing with Vikings stadium issues for months, or ...
Posted on 4/23/12 at 3:13 AM
STAFF BLOG CHEF JEFF A Carrot Salad for a Veteran
In about 10 days, between 50 and 100 World War II veterans from the area will embark on a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorial to their wartime service and sacrifice. I'm sure if my dad, Er...
Posted on 4/7/09 at 3:23 AM
Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 29, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Rainbows!
While sorting junk one day, I came across an old album, given to me by the late Eleanor Johnson. Or else someone else gave it to me after she passed away. She had carefully saved many of my Cow columns and put them in the album. It must have been in the ‘80’s. Probably 25 years ago, or longer.
By Ina Murray, columnist , August 29, 2012
Book Review: Did she or didn’t she: Does it even matter?
Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said “I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 24, 2012
Book Report: Remedy/curse: Drug highs and lows
Thomas De Quincy was born on this day in 1785, and would later write an eerie book that captured the romantic imagination, “Confessions of an Opium Eater.”
August 17, 2012
Old Cow Belle: Folk Lore
I’ve been reading a Nora Roberts novel, “Tears of The Moon.” The setting is Ireland, “a land of poets and legends and dreamers and rebels.”
August 16, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Time ... What do we do with it?
Sometimes, in the early evening, when I sit idly on the wooden porch swing, enjoying the “peace” and the glorious sunset…praying some, looking at all the things God has made, the trees and flowers surrounding me…I try not to feel guilty, for wasting time.
By Ina Murray, columnist , August 01, 2012
Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
Normally I write about two books each week — one national and one regional.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 30, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Disobedience?
Including the Ten Commandments in our church services is so cool! It’s like “getting back to basics.” They are always included in one way or another, but this is kind of an emphasis and a reminder.
By Ina Murray, columnist , July 25, 2012
Old Cowbelle: 'Brain Busy-Ness'
I’ve read that keeping the brain “busy” could forestall Alzheimer’s disease.
By Ina Murray, columnist , July 18, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Communication
It’s hard, being too sentimental, trying to express personal things to someone because then I get all choked up and want to cry! Uff-Da!
By Ina Murray, columnist , July 11, 2012
Book Report: Author revels in fine details
Oh, shucks, thought I. Sara Rath has given up on non-fiction and has taken to penning novels when I received the Spring Green author’s “The Waters of Star Lake,” by Sara Rath (Terrace Books, $26.95).
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 28, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Greg's Artwork
I just can’t let go of Greg yet. I know many people have seen and appreciated his artwork here and there and everywhere. But not everyone has seen the depth of symbolism that been included in them, and the variety of wood species that he used. I know he ordered wood from many far-away sources.
June 27, 2012
You can hear the crack of the bat
In one sense, baseball is a game of numbers, numbers involving runs batted in, earned run averages, singles, two-baggers, homers, attendance. My late friend Dave Goldsmith subscribed to Baseball Digest, several baseball newspapers and even flunked out of a college because he spent his entire freshman year memorizing baseball statistics.
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 21, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Naming the Patio Bar
I love to enter contests, whether there is a prize offered or not. Maybe it’s the challenge I like?
By Ina Murray, columnist , June 20, 2012
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