Twenty-five years later, I can still see the bulky television in the corner of my office.It was Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, and we were on deadline to produce our...

 “Old Skunk Road” comes to an end when it reaches the city limit and merges with Highway 11. Overnight, about a quarter mile upwind from Oak View...

It's good to be writing again, even though — if I'm honest — I don't really love the actual sitting-down-and-writing part of it. I never have. Every column starts the same...

Part One. “Old Skunk Road”In 1920, Highway 11 was built on a natural sand ridge, a leftover beach from a long-receded ancient lake. The highway was...

Life used to feel simpler.Not simple, exactly, but simpler in the sense that fewer things demanded our attention before we could even get out the door.We had a telephone,...

A few weeks ago, I spent an entire afternoon on my knees in the flower bed, waging war against quack grass. If you've never pulled it, count...

We all carry a strange kind of ledger in our heads — hundreds, maybe thousands of people we've known just enough to nod to. The mail carrier who retired. The waitress who...

My husband, Rolly, has been in love with trains for as long as I’ve known him. He dreamed of being a train engineer as a young boy, but was...

On May 17th 1814, the constitution was signed by Edsvold freeing Norway from Danish rule. In November of 1814, a union was established between...

 One of the things that I liked most about my youth was the absence of ticks.I find myself spending way too much time pondering why they seem so...

After the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the American colonies boycotted English tea and adopted coffee as their drink of choice. It was not a difficult...

Several weeks ago, my husband Rolly and I nearly became a headline — and a statistic.We were driving in Warroad. We had just exited the Circle K, turning east. At that same...

On December 16, 1773, members of the “Sons of Liberty,” formed in the 13 colonies in 1765 to protect colonists’ rights and combat British taxation,...

Around 130 years ago, the northwest corner of Minnesota, where we live, was settled by European immigrants: a split between Scandinavians and...

The following best of Rabbit ole Ramblin first appeared in The Exponent in December 2022Just when I  thought it was safe to start working on...