As I walked, my mood changed a couple of times. Pacing along, I tried to make sense of the happenings in our world. There’s so much misery, hatred and incivility today — it hurts me to see, hear and read about it. My cloudy mood matched the dark sky, and then, it happened. The sun ...

In midwinter, when bites come a bit slower and non-outdoors time is best spent in the basement at the lure-making desk or going through tackle for the coming spring, the point of much of my work is making sure that my gear is ready to go. When it comes down to it, a lot of my focus is on just ...

The President of Lithuania urges crossing red lines and I am beginning to reconsider the value of my apartment in Warsaw. “I am really in favor of sending [fighter jets] and crossing all the red lines,” President Gitanas Nausėda said before the European Council meeting last Thursday. ...

A proposal that’s been working its way through committees, and is soon to be on the Senate floor, is the Democrats’ driver’s licenses for all legislation. This bill already passed out of the House of Representatives, and Gov. Tim Walz has indicated he will sign it into law. Previously, ...

It’s not often that people of all ages talk about a movie that should lead everyone to make a trip to the theater. It happened this winter with the Tom Hanks movie “A Man Called Otto”. I saw it earlier this month at Marshall 6, and thought it was the best new movie I’ve seen since ...

Delores Richards and I are the two volunteer coordinators for the Salvation Army in Lyon County. To say that 2022 was a crazy and challenging year would be an understatement. First our supervisor for Salvation Army was out for most of the campaign with a serious illness. Thank God she is ...