Picture this: A father and mother sit at their kitchen table, sorting through decades of financial statements, wondering if their children know where to find their life insurance policies, let alone what to do with them when the time comes. Across town, their adult daughter is quietly ...
While scanning my inbox last week, I noticed an email from The Minnesota Chamber Foundation Grow Minnesota! Program. It was releasing its annual “State of business retention and expansion in Minnesota” report. I had a few minutes on Thursday to finally review the report. It highlighted business investment across the state, while identifying challenges. The first quote in the email: “Minnesota continues to attract and support business investment, and that is encouraging,” said Jennifer Byers, executive director of the Minnesota Chamber Foundation. “At the same time, this ...
The wind of this year’s pheasant opener weekend was notable, but there were more than enough birds to make the two-day stretch memorable even with a good deal of standing corn on the landscape. On Saturday, from the south, the 30 mile per hour gusts pumped in heat which shortened our day in ...
At the end of the day, do you revisit your day before falling asleep? That nightly revisit of the day's events is important to each of us. It allows us to feel good about some things, and for the not so good moments, the review allows us to see where or how we could improve ourselves. That revisiting gives us a chance to be a better person. Here's one experience that gave me the push to revisit some family history. At a recent Family Fun event with a Halloween theme, I volunteered to help with the event's activities. I was assigned to the Spider Race table, and we waited for the ...
I married a waitress, so it seemed appropriate to take her to see “Waitress: The Musical.” You know that a play is off-off-off Broadway when it’s being performed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Not that I’m complaining. Driving an hour to enjoy a Broadway show beats the heck out of ...
Candy bars often have sweet, chewy and crunchy sensations; which can make it hard to choose one particular favorite. My personal choice made headlines during the past two weeks in the Twin Cities. The Pearson’s Candy Company announced that it was closing its doors, which will mean the loss of more than 100 jobs. They make the famous Salted Nut Roll, a mixture of cream, caramel and peanuts. The candy bar goes back almost a century, to 1933 and the depths of the Great Depression. It has remained popular throughout the Midwest. It was my favorite candy bar as a kid because it stood ...
