Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

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I am back to writing columns again, after an interim resulting from an unfortunate set of circumstances. While visiting an Amish farm near Kalona, Iowa, I did not pay attention to where I was walking.

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

MINOT — It's unfortunate that generations worth of rancor over the legality of abortion in America has orbited around a legal fantasy, which is that somehow the law can say things it was never ...

After over four decades in commercial real estate brokerage and 10 years writing this column, I thought I knew how to tell a story. Then I decided to write a book. And I’m pleased to say it’s ...

Suddenly, I’ve got a big old case of writer’s block. The problem is … I don’t believe that there’s any such thing as “writer’s block.” It’s a myth. It’s not that I don’t have any ideas; it’s that I ...

This column is a bit more personal than others. No, there are no drastic conditions to report, and I am not giving up the column, just making a little adjustment. Here’s some history for context. It ...