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You can learn to live and eat healthfully — provided you don’t die first!

Life as we know it

The Mambo King reports: “Subject: Life is good!

“The Mambo King almost bit the dust about eight weeks ago.

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What did you do for a headache before 1899?

Month at a glance

Our customary first-of-the-monthly dispatch from The Stillwater Scouter: “March is Mad for Plaid Month.

“National Procrastination Week takes place March 4 through March 10.

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The Cubs were on the prowl. The moon was in eclipse. The East Sider was out on the deck. And who was that then, lumbering up to join him?

See world

Another close encounter of the natural kind, reported by Jim Fitzsimons of St. Paul: “Subject: Nature? In St. Paul’s Rockin’ East Side?

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There’s a new member of the household. “Her” name: Alexa. And “she,” too, has big ears!

Little pitchers . . .
Leading to: The highfalutin amusements

Here’s Gregory of the North, “reminding everyone that little ears ALWAYS are listening”: “My wife and I care for our grandchildren early in the morning, between the time their parents leave for work and when their school bus picks them up. Every morning, they spend their time watching cartoons on TV, playing computer games or making endless LEGO projects. Never have I thought they paid much attention to Grandpa, who, after all, spends most of the morning with the Pioneer Press.

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