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: This mystery worthy of Masterpiece Theatre
I’m not a big fan of detective novels in general, but I’m a sucker for the works of Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse ever since I bought a 25-cent paperback of the latter’s hilarious novel, “Psmith” when I was a kid.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 02, 2012
Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
Normally I write about two books each week — one national and one regional.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 30, 2012
Very few adults are Living Healthy
EAST LANSING, Mich. - A study by a Michigan State University epidemiologist published in 2005 finds that very few Americans are doing all they can to maintain a healthy life, a situation he said could have dire consequences if it doesn't change.
Only 3% of adults undertook basic steps that define a healthy lifestyle.
By Staff Reports , July 23, 2012
Book Report: Historical tinkering makes for lively reading
I’ve written before about alternative history and writers like Harry Turtledove. He writes what I like to call “what if” novels.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 18, 2012
Pediatric Dental Care: Good teeth start with good habits, dental visits
Tooth decay is recognized as the most common chronic disease affecting children in the United States.
By Steve Dzubay , July 17, 2012
Book Report: ‘Birdseye’ look at frozen food, more
Mark Kurlansky astounded the reading world several years ago when he wrote “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.”
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , July 12, 2012
Book Report: Author revels in fine details
Oh, shucks, thought I. Sara Rath has given up on non-fiction and has taken to penning novels when I received the Spring Green author’s “The Waters of Star Lake,” by Sara Rath (Terrace Books, $26.95).
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 28, 2012
You can hear the crack of the bat
In one sense, baseball is a game of numbers, numbers involving runs batted in, earned run averages, singles, two-baggers, homers, attendance. My late friend Dave Goldsmith subscribed to Baseball Digest, several baseball newspapers and even flunked out of a college because he spent his entire freshman year memorizing baseball statistics.
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 21, 2012
Book Report: Genre readers are going for smut
Extra! Extra! Late breaking news from the publishing industry.
And it’s not good news.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 18, 2012
Book Report: Guess I didn’t know her that well
I was very happy to receive “Walking the Rails,” by Ethel Erickson Radner (available at iUniverse.com; barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com, $13.95 paper; $23.95 hardcover; $3.99 e-book).
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 07, 2012
Book Report: Lyrical words tell the tale
Gary Boelhower, a St. Scholastica theology professor, writes on a variety of topics, his first wife, his daughter’s wedding, his gayness, his grandmother “ground down by the hard soil of two failed farms.”
May 31, 2012
Book Report: New book, same old Henry
Ever since I read “The Education of Henry Adams,” I’ve thought of its author, the great-grandson of our second president and grandson of John Quincy Adams, as a sanctimonious little prig.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 24, 2012
Book Report: Even Rough Rider Teddy couldn’t tame NYC
Back in the 1950s adolescents looking for exciting reading about the facts of life, etc., turned to a series of books by muckraking journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 18, 2012
Book Report: Have a peek at this American family
The Dale family — Mom, Dad, son Zak, daughter Chloe and Lars the dog — come together for a typical American supper:
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 11, 2012
Some spies never rest; revisit fictional Door County
Tom Nash seemingly has it made. He’s a retired British spy. He lives on the Cote D’Azur, the French Riviera, hobnobs with artists and writers and expatriates like Gerald and Sara Murphy.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 04, 2012
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