Articles

Zaleski: Let it snow, let it snow? Let it not …

"Winter up there, yet?” said my school friend from the East Coast. “Getting ready to hibernate?” he snickered.

Zaleski: Psychotic hoarding? I don’t think so …

I read an article about hoarders. It got me thinking about all the stuff I’ve collected or saved or rescued – not hoarded – during more than 40 years of adult life. Hoarding, experts say, can go from chronic collecting to spooky psychosis. Where’s that line? And who draws it? Have I crossed it?

Zaleski: Avoiding debates serves only candidates

The tradition of North Dakota political debates is being trashed by politicians in two high-profile races on the 2010 ballot: U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

Zaleski: Granddad, long walks and pigs feet

The other day I became my grandfather. It was about food.

Columns

Zaleski: How about a Palin and Paul ticket?

The best thing that could happen to Democrats in the run-up to the 2016 election campaign is a Republican slate of Sarah Palin for president and Rand Paul for her running mate.

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Zaleski: A long time ago I wrote it down

I’m dismissive of the “social media” phenomenon. Disdainful, really. I find it shallow, juvenile and without boundaries.

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Zaleski: USDA portrait an appropriate honor

Some weeks the news tends to the peculiar. It can be depressing, uplifting, ironic or hypocritical (lots of that going around these days), but peculiar wraps ’em all in.

Zaleski: Swimmin’ nude from Minot to Newton

In last week’s column, I asked readers if they swam nude when they were kids, as I did at my hometown YMCA in New Britain, Conn. Well, they surely did.

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Zaleski: Rude to be nude? Not 50 years ago

Regular readers of The Forum’s Variety section couldn’t help but notice Wednesday’s feature by Sam Benshoof, “When it comes to gym locker rooms, is it rude to be nude?” Subhead: “Locker room etiquette: What to do and what not to do.”

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Zaleski: The magic of mind, eye and hand

I still write letters. Sometimes I put pen to paper or relearn typing on my ancient L.C. Smith manual.

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Zaleski: Waiting for No. 5 from Jeffrey Lent

One of my favorite authors, Jeffrey Lent, of Vermont, is completing a fifth novel that is expected to be in bookstores in the spring.

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Zaleski: Inviting Stephanie Abrams to winter

It never fails. When temperatures on the northern Plains plunge to positively uncivilized lows, like they did last week, my friends who live in warmer places call or email to see “if I’m OK.” I assured them I was just fine, thank you.

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Zaleski: Really, you can’t make this stuff up

What a strange week it’s been. Full moon? Could be.

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Zaleski: Go inside ‘The Presidents Club’

I’m almost done with one of the most fascinating political histories I’ve ever read.

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