I first started at the Bemidji (Minn.) Pioneer as an intern in the summer of 1996. That would begin six years as a news reporter, sports...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In October 2017 I began a new venture as a synodically authorized minister at Faith Lutheran Church in Wolverton, Minn....

"You know what," Shelley said, as we sat snuggled into the couch at the cabin, watching a movie. "This ... was the perfect day." And she...

We've certainly never had a bad canoe adventure, but our absolute favorite "Unit 1" outing was early in our first year our new canoeing...

Our second run ever in "Unit 1" was to a small lake in Becker County that was near where we dropped our girls off with their dad for a...

It took a month into summer last year before we finally got Unit 1 out into the water. Our commitment to "canoe every chance we got" in...

Yesterday we returned to Anderson Lake, where our canoeing adventures began together. This was the first lake that we ever put "Unit 1"...

It seems a travesty that it was August before we got "Unit 1" into the water this summer. But thanks to a combination of the backyard...

A couple of years ago, Shelley asked me what I wanted for Father's Day. ... I answered a canoe. At first she didn't believe me. Because...