Columnists

Full Circle: Hanging out with the neighbors

“What,” asks the puzzled child, “is a clothesline?” Can it be true that we are the last generation ...

Columnists

Full Circle: More blessed to give … books

The Friends of the Library have some questions for you. Is your daughter (who once cherished  “Dora the ...

News

Full Circle: Unfair fair fare foe

Seems the Minnesota State Fair is not the only place that serves unfair fair food.  That rascally Texas, ...

News

Full Circle: Unfair Fair fare galore

Come on! Did you really think I could read about the new menu for the upcoming Minnesota State ...

Opinion

Full Circle: Satan made me say it

Every church has them, no faith excluded. What could I be talking about? Why, the church bulletins, of ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Blushin’ brushin’ Dale

How about that! I write a column about Fuller brushes and guess what? A Fuller Brush Man appears! ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Interesting, and amusing, lessons from spelling

SUOICODILAIPXECITSILIGARFILACREPUS. I tried holding this up to a mirror but it didn’t help. Any grade school student, however, ...

News

Full Circle: A Fuller life … with a Fuller Brush

There it sits on the edge of my bathroom sink like a loyal sentry awaiting its next task. ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Church + Warner’s = Whoops!

Churches take themselves so darned seriously when, indeed, everyone knows what uproariously funny things happen in the Lord’s ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Ring, ring, ding-a-ling

No doubt about it. I’m a telephone dunderhead. I used to be really good at telephone technology whereas ...

Columnists

Full Circle: Wonky is as wonky does

We love our children, right? We love everything about them. Right again? Moreover, their intentions are, without fail, ...

Columnists

Full Circle: What a difference 100 years makes

You’re in Hy-Vee. Walking past you are lots of people. Actually lots of old people. (Austin has many!) ...

News

Full Circle: Readin,’ ‘Ritin,’ ‘Rithmetic

September, 1944, my brother’s first day of school. Neil is the last of a prolific line of McLaughlin ...

News

Full Circle: Pin ups from our past

You’re thinking … yes, you are … that I’m going to talk about saucy gals like Betty Grable ...

News

Full Circle: Fickle feckless February

Whoa! What happened to us last Friday? Talk about cranky. Mother Nature had some kind of a gnarly ...

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