LIFESTYLE
A MINNESOTAN IN CHINA Tai Chi 2: The Lifestyle
Last time we looked at the practice. This time it's about the place and the people, aboutwhat life was like there on Wu Dang Shan. First the setting: life there is encased in a sea of mountain tops a...
Posted on 8/29/12 at 10:29 AM
HEALTH BEAT The younger generation: more stressed, less healthy?
They're in the prime of life, yet younger workers often report feeling more stressed and less healthy than their older counterparts. And we're busy worrying about ailing baby boomers swamping the hea...
Posted on 7/20/12 at 12:21 PM
REAL MONEY Avoiding Lifestyle Inflation
When my wife and I first got married, we lived on a meager income. We lived in a run-down two bedroom apartment and ate Hamburger Helper more than Id care to admit. We managed to get by and live a hap...
Posted on 5/25/12 at 2:55 AM
Book Report: Glowing endorsements for new poet
River Falls poet Thomas R. Smith writes that Kristin Laurel’s new book of poetry will “burn itself on your memory.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 14, 2013
Book Report: Area author’s round two a success
Not long ago I raved about a first novel written by a neighbor down the road in Lake Elmo, Minn. His name: Jim Trevis.
By Dave Wood, columnist , March 08, 2013
Book Report: Son carries on, expands war narrative
As the River Falls Reads program winds down and folks who have read and enjoyed Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, “The Killer Angels,” are looking for new reading material, I’m happy to report that although Shaara died in 1988, his family lives on in the person of his son, Jeff Shaara, who also writes about the Civil War and has completed his father’s trilogy with “Gods and Generals” and “The Last Full Measure.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 28, 2013
Book Report: The dirt: Even Puritans didn’t always come clean
I have ancestors who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, so I’m always on the lookout for books, movies or plays about that fabled place.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 25, 2013
Book Report: Court documents reveal historical truths
I have ancestors who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century, so I’m always on the lookout for books, movies or plays about that fabled place.
By Dave Wood, Columnist , February 21, 2013
Book Review: Diary entries sum up tales of rich and famous
“October 27, 1940, Sunday — Went to chapel all day as usual. Our big meeting next Sunday. Gwilym Rees will be preaching.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 14, 2013
Why yogurt can be a healthy choice
The popularity of yogurt is on the rise. According to Innoval Market Insights, launches of Greek yogurt products have increased by 29 percent in the United States.
By Staff , February 08, 2013
Book Reviews: Rehashing the infamous rabble-rousers
“Now that science has attained its youth and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: ‘Let us be friends.’ It reminds me of the bargain the cock wished to make with the horse: ‘Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.’”
—Robert Ingersoll, 1885
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 07, 2013
Ellsworth woman conquering diabetes, one day at a time
Kathie Geister survived a bout with diabetes that put her in a coma for four days, left her hospitalized for nearly a month and away from her job at Loberg Law Office for three months.
By Bill Kirk , February 06, 2013
5 simple ways to boost your energy levels
For many people, fatigue is most common around midafternoon, when the workday starts to drag and that hefty midday meal has inspired thoughts of catnaps.
By Staff , February 04, 2013
Woodbury man’s startup provides free access to gyms, personal trainers
Woodbury resident Nick Boyer, a personal trainer at the Woodbury YMCA, demonstrates exercise techniques at the Y. He launched a program that provides gym memberships and personal trainer-services for those who can’t afford them.
By Mike Longaecker , February 04, 2013
Book Report: Going back keeps stories going
Sometimes an author doesn’t realize he’s got a good thing going and plunges on ahead when he might well have done better had he looked back.
By Dave Wood, columnist , February 01, 2013
Getting Started: Tips for the Beginning Runner
The New Year is often when people of all ages and fitness levels consider starting a new running routine.
By Tracy L. Yoder, Ph.D., Contributor , February 01, 2013
Losing pounds & gaining happiness
O’Neal Hampton remembers the nights he used to spend lounging on the couch at his Richfield, Minn., home with a bag of potato chips by his side and “The Biggest Loser” playing on the television in front of him.
By Regan Carstensen , January 30, 2013
Book Report: The rise and fall of empires
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The long and level sands stretch far away.
—Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
By Dave Wood, columnist , January 23, 2013
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