An Eclectic Editor

Today I’m typing from a different place than usual. Not the truck or a state park or an airplane or anything wild, this place is much more simple. It’s my childhood bedroom. Well, not exactly, but it’s the room where all my stuff ended up after I flew the coop nearly 13 years ago.

Letter from the Publisher

It’s finally all white outside and for me that ignites crock pot season. At noon today I pulled out my prepped crock of soup and put it on high for tonight’s supper. When the kids walked into the house they said “mmm, it smells good in here.” That makes my heart dance a little bit.

Musings...Ice is nice, on skating rinks that is…by Lyle Van Camp

I got home on Tuesday night, the plane from Mesa to Fargo landed on time, my suitcase was the second one off of the plane, and my car was fairly close to the main door of the airport. Wow, I could not have been more pleased.

An Eclectic Editor

Hilary Nowatzki-May When I first started working for the Borderland Press, I made a trip up to the local library.

Musings... “Weighing in” as the new year begins by Lyle Van Camp

Good morning, it is 10:00 a.m. on Dec. 31s in sunny, warm Mesa, Arizona. The current temperature is 53 degrees. Once it warms up a little more I think I will go for a walk. As I write this, I am sitting in my recliner by the sliding door that leads to our little patio, drinking in the sunshine.

My Two Cents | Remembering those we lost in 2023 by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

Never fear, Lyle Van Camp; I’ll have another fishing story in a couple of weeks, but for this week’s column I decided to say a few words about some celebrities who passed away in the past year and my personal recollections of them.

Letter from the Publisher

Welcome to 2024! I look forward to another year as publisher of our favorite newspaper and am barreling full steam ahead into the new year. I am a bit overly excited about the things that could happen this year. There isn’t one thing in particular.

Dear

Dear Anxious: The reason your wife received a letter from Social Security (SS) suggesting she claims now is because her benefit reached maximum some time ago at age 70. Thus, there is no reason for her to wait beyond age 70 to claim.

Letter from the Publisher

Oh for the love of food! If you read my column last week you’d know that there were two new items on my family’s Christmas menu. Brisket, which turned out to be extremely great thanks to my brother-in-law’s mad smoker skills, and copy-cat Panera mac and cheese, which I tried out for the first time.

An Eclectic Editor: It was a busy weekend, to say the least!

Phil and I are in Tennessee so we spent Christmas Eve with one family and Christmas Day with another. We had some back and forthing to do, but the rides gave me time to work. There’s no days off when it comes to news and printing deadlines! On Friday, Dec.