Just a thought - Eli Lutgens
I am grateful the political season is behind us.
Election years are generally good for the newspaper, but not my health.
Many advertisements, election notices, questionnaires, all require lots of time, energy and attention to detail. I’m glad it’s done.
I told Editor Deb this...
CELEBRATING LIFE - Bob Hanson served in the Korean War and spent most of his service time in Japan as a war spy.
Bob and Genie Hanson are the types of folks a person would need a lifetime's worth of coffee to chat with.
I was blessed with their company last Wednesday afternoon in my home for coffee and rolls.
After learning of Bob’s Alzheimer's diagnosis from his column this week, I called the...
On Thursday of last week, I finished a two week course of antibiotics intended to fix my gut health. After two weeks I can report I still have pain in my gut, the usual kind. However, within three days of the antibiotic, my back, which had not healed over 10 months, was about 50% better. By the...
A lot of damage was caused due to the flooding this past week in New Richland. Cleanup efforts are still underway all across the city. A team is coming around town on Sunday to talk to folks to get a dollar estimate of damages and also to use this info to apply for funding at the federal level....
I don’t have a whole lot of life updates or happenings to share this week.
Last week I did not write a column as it was simply too painful of a week. I aggravated my back/leg/sciatic nerve and spent the entire week, continuing to today, nursing a spasming calf muscle. Quite painful.
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This week I have health updates, a Braves baseball update and a little local news.
Locally
The bakery in New Richland is for sale/has been for sale. Nancy Jane and company plan to retire when they sell.
As long as I have been alive, New Richland has had a bakery. During my youth my...
I’m grateful for my siblings.
I bought my brother a “smoker,” aka a type of grill for a gift this past week. It was a combination birthday/Christmas gift. But really I just want someone to make a good brisket that I can enjoy. After much discussion on my best friend Jake’s couch, we reached...
Last week my dad told me about falling in love with my mother. It took me completely by surprise when he said it was “love at first sight.”
It’s such an odd thing. I told my dad last week that I love him more than any other person. He told me I was his best friend.
In previous columns...
My friend Madi reports she had an excellent time on the trip we planned together that I could not attend due to my back injury. She visited four monasteries and, aside from the “freaky African and Indian Masks” at the cabin, everything was “fantastic.” Madi also visited a museum of dinosaurs as...
I was supposed to be on vacation this week.
At 28-years old I’m not supposed to have this much pain.
I threw out my back picking up a frying pan last Tuesday. Despite taking care not to bend at the back, bending with my knees, the motion of picking it up with my arms caused my lower...