Lynn Hummel

At a time when unemployment in this country is at about 9.6 percent, this column is in constant search of ideas for creating new jobs. Let me launch the latest...

"Hello." "Hello, is this Creative Consulting?" "No, I'm afraid you have the wrong number." "Well, hold on, before you hang up, can I bounce a few ideas off you? I...

The Superior National Forest located in the Arrowhead Region in northeastern Minnesota next to Ontario, Canada, is vast and wild. It contains the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness where no...

Don't tell me I'm the only guy who ever had to go to a wedding he wanted very much to avoid. You know, some beautiful Saturday afternoon in the summer...

Tonight I put another can full of vegetable scraps into my compost pit. What I have in that pit is grass clippings, seaweed, flower petals, celery chunks (I try to...

"Why would anybody want to go to Haiti?" I was asked, "It's hopeless there." Well, we went anyway, a team of six, because of an assignment that had to be...

Until I heard part of an interview last week, I had given no thought to the everyday delights that come wafting into my nose. The person being interviewed had lost...

My friend Tom gets his medical treatment in England, where he lives. Tom's doctor realized that some of Tom's symptoms were being made worse by anxiety, so he asked him...

I saw an ad for a $12,725 men's Swiss watch the other day. It was a beautiful piece of jewelry with a circle of 36 small diamonds around its bold,...

In the law, the venue of a case is usually the place where an incident or crime occurred, and, therefore, that's the county or district where the trial will be...

"Birds of a feather flock together," my mother always used to say. She had several different meanings for that expression, but there was always one underlying message: Don't forget where...

As this article is being written, hearings began today in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan, now Solicitor General of...

Have you ever wanted to write an anonymous letter? Of course you have. The world is filled with folks who have wanted to write anonymous letters. But not many were...

For the past couple of weeks, whenever you picked up a Sunday paper or a news or family magazine you would find a list for "light summer reading." The expression...

Has a word or a line of a song suddenly popped into your consciousness after laying hidden away in the dark recesses of your subconscious and forgotten for years or...