As a kid, I watched a lot of sports on TV. Afterwards, I’d go outside and be the hero in my own game. I hit a rubber ball over the granary for a walk-off home run. Or I threw and caught the winning touchdown pass. Tom Brady never did that. I watched the first Super Bowl, which wasn’t even ...

When we think of Eating Disorders we typically think of females. Depending on the study, about 90 percent of people with an eating disorder are women or girls. What is not mentioned or is ignored is that about 10 percent of people with eating disorders are males. There was a study that showed ...

It’s amazing what one will revisit when reading a classic child’s book. While scrolling through a website, I came to a mention of a poem by Shel Silverstein entitled “The Giving Tree.” I read it many times to our children (...and to myself) in past days, and decided there was ...

“Big fish don’t get big by being dumb,” is a favorite outdoor saying of mine, but perhaps it only exists to provide those trophy fish with a bit of anthropomorphized intellect justifying my difficulty in catching them. Whether that’s a walleye heading up to the 30-inch mark, a ...

It had been quite a while since I last attended a winter farm show, and it felt like I was long overdue. The only problem with going to a winter farm show is the “winter” part. It’s unfailingly cold in this neck of the woods when those particular events are held, but duh, it’s ...

Monday will be Presidents Day, an ideal time to think about our perspective on the nation’s highest office. I’ve seen a big change in my lifetime in regard to how people view the presidency. When I was growing up, I had a book with biographies of all the Presidents. I memorized their ...