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WOSTER: Winter weather brings longing for ignorance

I seldom want to go back and live things over, but as the winter weather season approaches, I wouldn’t mind being 19 again and having no concept of what’s involved in a storm warning.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Attitude of gratitude helps in rough times

I belong to a club where people sometimes talk about having “an attitude of gratitude.”

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Memory of pheasant openers always perfect

Opening day of pheasant season in South Dakota has always been an incredible spectacle.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: When fire struck, old technology was useful

I don’t have to work very hard to remember back to late May and early June when I thought it might never quit raining in South Dakota.

• Terry Woster

Jim Woster is a bust - and that's good

Driving from Pierre to Brookings and back in the same afternoon and evening is a bit of a challenge for a couple of mature folks like me and Nancy, but we made the trip on Wednesday for the pleasure of watching my big brother honored at South Dakota State University. Jim, the oldest of Henry and Marie Woster’s five children, is four years older than I am, but he graduated from Chamberlain High School five years before I did.

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WOSTER: Chance remarks can leave big impression

My first electric guitar was a Sears knock-off of the popular Fender Telecaster.

WOSTER: I can see 70, and it doesn't seem strange at all

In one of our upstairs bedrooms, a soft blanket thrown across the bedspread has images of a Teddy bear and the words, “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

WOSTER: Who decided to try to grow things out here, anyway?

As I mowed my lawn the other day, it occurred to me that I was engaged in a really foolish activity.

WOSTER: Mo. River crisis stirs memories of 1972 SD flood

It’s been 39 years since a flash flood in the Black Hills killed 238 people in Rapid City and surrounding communities.

WOSTER: Changing river changes lives in Fort Pierre, Pierre

If you live anywhere near Pierre or Fort Pierre these days, there isn’t much to talk about besides the Missouri River flooding.

Columns

WOSTER: Hamiel: Redford and Woodward all in one newspaperman

My friend Noel Hamiel was Robert Redford in the newsroom before most folks knew about Redford, Dustin Hoffman and “All the President’s Men,” the 1970s era film about the Washington Post reporters who dug into the Watergate mess that resulted in President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Credibility is fragile thing in news business

I found many aspects of being a newspaper reporter challenging during a 42-year career, but nothing worried me more than mistakes. The newspaper business is full of opportunities for mistakes.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Keeping a shoulder to the grindstone as age takes its toll

If the universe unfolded according to plan, I’m having a six-week, post-surgery check-up on my totally replaced right shoulder just about now.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Grandkids, relatives, friends make for a full weekend

Last Friday, Nancy and I left town in time to take in the Brookings High School’s production of “M*A*S*H.” We’re big theater fans, sure, but our primary reason for traveling 200 miles to see a high school play was because our sophomore granddaughter played Lt. Janice Fury in the BHS production.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Farmyard wasn’t quite like a track, but it served its purpose

I spent some time recently reflecting on the backboard and hoop I made and fastened to the REA pole at the edge of our farmyard, an uneven, rutted patch of rock-hard earth that sloped away from the pole and made the hoop an official 10 feet above the ground only in a tiny area directly below the basket.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: To cover the plants or not to cover?

Many of us also have been wondering at idle moments if we were in for a rude awakening sometime before the heat of summer arrives in earnest.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Easter brings renewal on the Missouri River

If Easter is a time of renewal, then my home community and its sister city across the Missouri River are deep into the season.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: Less channels years ago, but shows were memorable

We took in a Riders in the Sky concert the other day and, quite naturally, I got to thinking about cable television.

• Terry Woster

WOSTER: In praise of modern medicine after shoulder surgery

I don’t usually like hearing stories about medical procedures, but when they’re my stories, they become fascinating, kind of like the way the only home movies anyone cares to see are their own.

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WOSTER: Beware of the ambient social networking apps

What it seems to do is dig through your Facebook account to, the article says, “See whom you know and what topics you like.” Using that information and your smart phone’s Global Positioning System, this app thing alerts you when someone who likes the stuff you like or knows the people you know is in the general vicinity of you.

• Terry Woster