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TIME OUT WITH LOIS: The stolen pajamas

Published on Fri, 03/11/2022 - 12:00am
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Finally, I got my pajamas back. They weren’t lost exactly, well, kinda. I knew where they were, but not exactly. I sure hugged them when they were handed over to me. He-Who’s red flannel plaid shirt looked just as good as it did the day before it left home.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Two good words

Published on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 12:00am
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Last week you read the timeline of the decision my mom and I made to get our affairs in order. People would say, “Do you two live together?”

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Legacy timeline

Published on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 12:00am

Soon this column will be 34 years old. There were times when I wrote a timeline piece, a column, but also a record or legacy to leave for our family. ’Tis a good idea for you, too. Mom kept a book of important dates. When our brains failed, we went to her book! So let’s get at it.

Pope makes personal appeal in remarkable Russia embassy trip

Published on Fri, 02/25/2022 - 12:00am

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis visited the Russian Embassy on Friday to personally “express his concern about the war” in Ukraine, in an extraordinary, hands-on papal gesture that has no recent precedent.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Me, the decorator

Published on Fri, 02/18/2022 - 12:00am

In our house, my family knows that moving furniture is one of my favorite activities, a great stress reliever and decompression tactic. He-Who-Took-Long-Steps always said it was good he wasn’t a drinking man: “I’d be dead from tripping over furniture!”

Pakistan women protest India’s ban on headscarves in schools

Published on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 12:00am

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani women rallied Thursday to denounce a ban imposed in a region in neighboring India on the wearing of the traditional headscarf, or hijab, by Muslim girls in schools.

Egypt names first-ever Christian head of country’s top court

Published on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 12:00am

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president on Wednesday swore in the first-ever Coptic Christian to head the country’s highest court.

‘TIME OUT WITH LOIS’: Making an idol of certainty

Published on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 12:00am

An interview I watched a year ago with a formerly healthy 47-year-old man really changed my life. At least the way I handled my own everyday life.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Yikes! Mercy! Good Grief! What a mistake!

Published on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 12:00am
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There are three words that appear too often in my speech They are “Oh, Good Grief!” and “Yikes” and “Mercy!” When our grandson Tyler Olmstead was 4 years old, I bought two mouse books that were all pictures, no words. So I would “read” him the story by the pictures. I’d say, “Oh, mercy, the mouse is in the paints.” And “Oh, look, here comes the mom back into the room. Mercy, that mouse is going to be in trouble!”

TIME OUT WITH LOISE: Mom’s raspberry jam

Published on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 12:00am

Twice this week people talked to me about my mom’s Green Tomato Raspberry Jam. One of her biggest fans is Dean Hendrickson. Dean has been my folks’ State Farm agent for years. As a matter of fact, last summer I was supposed to “jump” the battery in her little Ford Ranger pickup because the battery was dead. (I think I left the key on after we hauled garbage.) I kept saying I’d do it, but I didn’t.

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