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There is a popular medication for folks with asthma. The purpose of the well-advertised prescription is to prevent the two main symptoms of asthma: airway constriction and inflammation. But when you read the small print you are told that possible side effects of the drug include the...

When this column finally gets published and is in your hands, it will be Easter Sunday. Children will be frantically searching for elusive eggs, parents will be cheerily cooking all manner of Easter fare, and I will be in my church flipping pancakes. Allow me to explain. It's been...

It's 2 a.m. Do you know where your children are? I do not, because, alas I do not have children. Anyway, it is actually 9:30 and I'm sitting at home writing this article anxiously awaiting to leave for our school's choir trip to NYC. Something miraculous has happened. That special...

It's finally happened. Something horrific, something terrifying, something disfiguring, something debilitating. Writer's Block! That's right everyone, the time has come where I actually have absolutely nothing to preach about, complain about, or to rant and rave on. I am truly...

Dear Grandpa, I would like to dedicate this letter to you in order to lament your passing into the house of God. As expected, I will miss you ardently, however, your suffering in this life is over. No longer shall you be bound by the chains of mortality. You will no longer suffer...

Last Monday, I came home from town quite tired, but still mildly cheerful, for I did not yet know that one of my last surviving aquarium fish, an Oscar named "Oscar" (don't ask where I found the name) had left this earth. I ate supper, watched an episode of "The Waltons," changed...

It's gloomy, it's cold, the sky is blotted by a thick white sleeting downpour. Yes, it is what you think, it is a winter storm! All adults are thinking "Oh dear lord, now I have to shovel." All the young people are thinking (and praying) "Please, oh please, let school be late .......

I recently found out that Bobby Fischer, perhaps the greatest chess player the world has ever seen, died this month at the age of 64. Interestingly enough, that is the precise number of squares on a chessboard. He was a very fascinating man with many accomplishments. In honor of...

Hello Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and surrounding communities. How are you? Como est?s? Que haces? Comon sa va? Wie geht es Ihnen? Any who, something has happened in our school system, as you may have heard, that legitimately upsets me. Some of my friends have been banned from things...