last windrow

I would never have believed if you had told me as I was piloting that WD Allis Chalmers tractor down green rows of young Iowa corn plants that I would at this point in my life be acting as a executive director of a small-town chamber of commerce. No way, I would have said. That thought...

So, Minnesota will now be known as the place where the "coldest Super Bowl ever" was played. We're going to hear about this from sportscasters wearing Bermuda shorts and sleeveless T-shirts. Yes, we in the Gopher State know how to treat our visitors in the wintertime. We can actually...

OK, fess up now. How many of you have done the "Skol" Vikings cry this past week? I know many of you could care less about the Minnesota Vikings, but I also know there are many who live and die with the "purple." I know Todd's Tavern out there in Amherst, South Dakota, was donned...

"Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end ..." That's how the words of the song by Mary Hopkin go, and as we turn the page to the year 2018 those words came back to me. I remember the New Year's Eves of the past and how they've changed my attitude over this span...