Maybe I have heard too many urban legends about tourists waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing, but I’ve always had a fear of needing medical help when I’m away from home. Recently I had to face that fear. It wasn’t an extremely serious medical need, but I had to take action quickly. …
- Michael Rosmann
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
- Doreen Rosevold
We all want a happy life. We seek ways to be happy by observing happy people or reading self-help books or watching television shows like Dr. Phil. I’ve always suspected the elusive happiness magic button might be singular, simple and obvious, but I just could not get a grasp on it.
- Michael Rosmann
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this past column of Dr. Rosmann’s from 2016.
- Brent Olson
There are 13 controls on my alarm clock.
- Doreen Rosevold
My car talks to me more than my husband does. This is no exaggeration. I have a new car and it interacts with me on so many levels that I kind of feel like I am cheating on my husband when I drive into town to get groceries.
- Michael Rosmann
Most farmers and ranchers I talk with these days are pretty happy about how things are going for them. The high prices paid by farmers for additional farmland and expensive farm equipment bear out their optimism.
- Brent Olson
You want to hear how hard my life is?
- Doreen Rosevold
I should have followed the bear’s example. I should have crawled into a deep hole and slept all winter without eating. Sure, people would avoid me in the spring because I would have lost all my social skills and I would be so hungry as to be dangerous, but I wouldn’t find myself in this pred…
- Michael Rosmann
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
- Doreen Rosevold
She sits on her throne – the Queen of Romance. Her platinum blonde hair is expertly coiffed, framing her small face like a diamond picture frame. Her clear light blue eyes beckon the attention of single men from all corners of the castle like the siren of mermaids beckon sailors into dangero…
- Michael Rosmann
Farming, logging, and forestry, were rated as the happiest, most meaningful, and least stressful by workers in these and 17 other occupations, according to an article in the Jan. 6, 2023, edition of the Washington Post. The author, Andrew Van Dam, drew on survey data from the Bureau of Labor…
- Brent Olson
When someone asks me what I’ve been doing this year the answer that pops into my head is, “Nothing practical.”
- Doreen Rosevold
My sister told me recently that she wants to do one of those DNA kits where you can find your ancestral origins.
- Michael Rosmann
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
- Brent Olson
Recently I went to the doctor and the nurse who checked me in asked those questions they ask now, including, “Have you felt sad or depressed in the last two weeks?”
- Doreen Rosevold
My throat had an odd feeling to it when I woke up. I must have been snoring last night. I comforted myself with that thought as I took a pan of cookies out of the oven. I still had another 10 dozen to roll out and glaze and decorate. It was fine. It would all be fine. Company was coming for …
- Michael Rosmann
Have you noticed that each year the soil and bodies of water in temperate climate zones shift almost overnight from warm to colder as the environment cools each fall and reverses each spring? I can detect the annual thermal declines and inclines at our home water faucets and when I fish.
- Brent Olson
There will be no New Year resolutions for me.
- Doreen Rosevold
“Naw. This can’t be right.” I said, looking at the calendar. “Fifty years?
- Michael Rosmann
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
- Brent Olson
My wife had been working her way through the old episodes of “The West Wing.” I wandered through the living room one day during the scene where the Democratic president and a Republican senator were in the basement of the White House eating ice cream.
- Doreen Rosevold
Right about now you are eyeball-deep in guilt, exhaustion, Christmas programs, and wrapping paper. It is crunch week for holiday preparations. You have nine days left (maybe 8) to get everything done. Sadly, most who are responsible for the family’s holiday enjoyment and memories have depres…
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