COLUMNS
COLUMN: When technology turns touchy
Sometimes I just don’t like technology.August 28, 2010
COLUMN: Home projects: The true test of marriage 
I would say my husband and I are pretty compatible.
August 07, 2010
COLUMN: Fair food doesn’t fail to satisfy
One of the biggest dilemmas at the St. Croix County Fair, for me at least, was what to eat.
July 30, 2010
COLUMN: Re-discovering each other via date nights
My husband and I had a date night the other evening.
By Julia Ybarra-Young , July 24, 2010
COLUMN: Country mouse, city mouse
Remember that children’s story about the country mouse and the city mouse? This country mouse is having an identity crisis.
By Anna Holmquist , July 17, 2010
Book Report: Murder, intrigue are prime topics this week
Kudos to Julie Kramer for yet another well-told mystery entitled “Silencing Sam” (Atria, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 16, 2010
COLUMN: The difference is grand
Sometimes I forget the difference between parents and grandparents.
July 10, 2010
COLUMN: On having a ‘Cinderella moment’
My daughters were talking the other day about boys.
By Julia Ybarra-Young , June 25, 2010
Book Report: Concentration on hierarchies rather than product can be fatal in corporate world
Recently New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that years ago the motto was as “General Motors Goes, So Goes the Nation.” He followed by saying, “I’m very glad that isn’t true today.”
June 25, 2010
Book Report: Baseball’s a hit this week
Years back I remember hearing WCCO’s Ray Christensen and the late Dave Moore reminisce about when they were neighbors growing up in south Minneapolis.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 11, 2010
COLUMN: Partying like there’s no tomorrow (... or it just seems like that’s the case)
I never thought I would say this, but I’m partied out.
June 05, 2010
Book Report: Cherma captured in poetry
Back in 1920, Edgar Lee Masters, who grew up in a small Midwestern college town wrote a wonderful book of poems about the kind of people who settled his town of Galesburg, Ill.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 05, 2010
Book Reviews: A Minnesota favorite captured in recorded dialog
Here’s a book that the fans of the late Jon Hassler have been waiting for.
It’s “Conversations With Jon Hassler,” by Joseph Plut (Nodin Press, $19.95 paper). And you don’t even have to be a fan to appreciate what Plut has done.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 27, 2010
Book Report: True ‘Queen of the Nile’ much different from silver screen’s portrayal
First it was Claudette Colbert playing Cleopatra back in the ’30s. Then came Liz Taylor as the star-crossed Egyptian empress.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 21, 2010
COLUMN: Sick of being sick (and cold weather)
Mark Twain once said, “Fish and houseguests start to stink after three days.”
May 14, 2010
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