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Sammy the dog has been pretty happy since puppyhood. He doesn’t spend a lot of time reading news websites but is
By Mitch Traphagen
These guys didn’t risk their lives and wealth on a nation of whiners. Americans are still a strong and proud people and ...
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net
December 31, 2001, was a turning point for making the New Year’s holiday one of my favorites. It was all due to ...
By Mitch Traphagen
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The concept of the butterfly effect is that small changes - even the flapping of a butterfly’s wings - may produce big differences ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
Funerals are often described as “celebrations of life” but they rarely live up to that billing. Death is sad and there is just ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
I am seriously behind schedule on a slow journey home to Florida. My goal was to be well into the Intracoastal Waterway in ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
In 1975, Dad took me on a trip from our small, rural hometown to the big city of Minneapolis. We went to a ...
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It may well be low tide in Florida but, as it always does, the tide is rushing back in. Florida remains a ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
Esther was born a child of the Great Depression in the most rural of rural South Dakota. She went to school in a ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
The entire world cheered last week when the 33 Chilean miners emerged one-by-one to the surface. Religion or political preference or financial condition ...
