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Love, in-love or both

Just about everyone | know has told me that love was the reason they married their spouse. Whether you are married or divorced, love was in there somewhere. Since love is the most often stated reason for marriage, it would be good to know what that is. What follows is what psychologists ...

Going antiquing

My wife and I recently took a business trip to St. Cloud. She suggested that we leave early so that we could go antiquing. I learned long ago that “antiquing” is a code word for “shopping.” I used to think that “antiquing” meant making something new appear to be old. This is the ...

Still striving for peace and freedom

I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The missile crisis was a major event in a much longer situation known as the Cold War, which ...

NU Film Society to screen ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Film Society will taken a closer looks at the works of director Steven Spielberg with a screening of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The screening will begin 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov 4 at the New Ulm Public Library. This is the first film in the film society’s ...

I need my polka fix

I spend an ungodly amount of time in a tractor cab during the fall. Outside of sleeping, eating at odd intervals, and doing maintenance, my life is lived in a cab. The tractor radio is my steady companion. Every spring and fall, I spend a lot more time listening to the radio than Pam. The ...

Shadows and Sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe’s Enduring Legacy

As October wanes and the veil between worlds feels thinner, it’s worth revisiting the man who gave American literature its first true detective — and its most haunting shadows. Edgar Allan Poe, often remembered for his tales of terror, also pioneered the detective story with “The ...