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Christmas is Not an Emergency
"Christmas is not an Emergency" is one of the quotes from Dave Ramsey about the importance of having and using an emergency fund. If you have money saved in an emergency fund, it should be saved for ...
Posted on 3/22/13 at 8:02 PM
Senate Bill 2326...don't drink the Kool-Aid!
It is a good thing I don't live in Bismarck. Heaven only knows how much time I would spend at the Capitol frothing at the mouth while trying to convey to legislators the idiocy of some of the things t...
Posted on 2/17/13 at 12:22 PM
Photo of incoming space rock 2012 DA14; check out a cool asteroid widget
Congratulations to amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia! He snapped one of the first images of incoming asteroid 2012 DA14 this morning as it passed through the halo of the ric...
Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:56 AM
Dave Wood's Book Report, April 29, 2009
A wag of my acquaintance once said that word processors are ruining the art of biography. He explained that it’s so easy to type on them (no carriage return, no worries of hyphenation, etc.), that “if Moses had one, there’d be 17 commandments rather than 10.”By Dave Wood , April 29, 2009
Wood Working: Seatless in Ixtapa: Hey, you can go home again
About 30 years ago, Ruth and I made our first trip to Mexico. We bought a package from Sun Country Tours and took off for Mexico’s newest resort location, Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa.By Dave Wood, columnist , April 24, 2009
Dave Wood's Book Report, April 22, 2009
As I’ve mentioned before, I love to read books that embrace a specific locale. In fact I got started reading when I was in high school and someone told me about Sinclair Lewis, a writer who grew up in a small town, like me. I gobbled up “Main Street” because it smelled like home.By Dave Wood , April 22, 2009
Dave Wood's Book Report, April 15, 2009
‘They roused him with muffins -- they roused him with ice -- They roused him with mustard and cress -- They roused him with jam and judicious advice -- They set him conundrums to guess.By Dave Wood , April 15, 2009
Wood Working: Much is revealed reading between the lines of history
Last week I wrote about Jim Farmer loaning me his father’s copy of “A History of Northern Wisconsin,” published in 1881.By Dave Wood, columnist , April 10, 2009
Dave Wood’s Book Report, April 8, 2009
After graduating from Harvard, Sara Houghteling studied for her master’s degree in fine arts at the University of Michigan, where she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Paris and one of Michigan’s highest honors, the Avery Hopwood Award for novels.By Dave Wood , April 08, 2009
Dave Wood's Book Report, March 18, 2009
Baseball is getting underway, so for a behind-the-scenes look could I suggest “Under the March Sun: The Story of Spring Training,” by Charles Fountain (Oxford University Press, $24.95)?By Dave Wood , March 18, 2009
Woodworking: Finding the hook that keeps them reading all about it
With long-established newspapers folding (Capitol Times in Madison) or going into chapter 13 (Star Tribune in Minneapolis), there’s lots of talk about how to save the institution that has been so important to the fostering of democracy in these United States.By Dave Wood, columnist , March 06, 2009
Dave Wood's Book Report, March 4, 2009
Award-winning Minnesota poet Larry Schug just sent me his new book, a gem called “Arrogant Bones,”(North Star Press, $12.95).By Dave Wood , March 04, 2009
Woodworking: What’s this? My memories all go way, way back
One of the jokes about my Grandpa Wood was that he could recall with precision what happened to him 50 years ago, but was stumped if you asked what he had done yesterday.By Dave Wood, columnist , February 26, 2009
Dave Wood's Book Report, Feb. 25, 2009
“Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington,” by Robert J. Norell (Harvard University Press, $35) is a fine new look at a historical figure who has suffered a bad rap for too long.By Dave Wood , February 25, 2009
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Feb. 11, 2009
I'm proud and happy to work for newspaper organizations who still believe it's important to publish news about books and the folks who write them.By Dave Wood , February 11, 2009
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Jan. 28, 2009
“Your Heart Belongs to Me,” is not a sappy Tin Pan Alley lyric, but the title of a new thriller by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27).By Dave Wood , January 28, 2009
Dave Wood’s Book Report, Jan. 21, 2009
Several years ago, my friend novelist Carolyn See wrote a tell-all book about her family’s century long love affair with alcohol addiction.By Dave Wood , January 21, 2009
Woodworking: I forgive fellow columnist for his disdain of lutefisk
The Journal’s outdoor columnist Dan Wilcox has for years been one of my favorite reads in this newspaper.By Dave Wood, columnist , January 16, 2009
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