Terry Woster

Lt. Gov. Harvey Wollman became the first lieutenant governor in South Dakota history to succeed a governor in mid-term. I never expected to see such a thing again, columnist Terry Woster writes.

A tire went flat on our car on Interstate 90 the other day. I spent an embarrassing amount of time finding the jack, columnist Terry Woster writes.

The sudden turn in weather has me preparing for real winter. It doesn’t have me thinking Arizona or Florida would be a better place to live.

I’m a lousy Thanksgiving cook, despite having grown up with a mother who was a great cook and having married into a family whose mother was a great cook.

I remember long, long days of driving as Dad concentrated on getting a certain number of miles down the road before stopping for the night.

Well, after the calendar shock I mentioned, I settled down. I set aside worries about Christmas and enjoyed Thanksgiving. When the weekend hit, though, Nancy and I got busy.

It occurred to me that the time between Pearl Harbor and its 2024 anniversary is longer than the time between the start of the Civil War and the Pearl Harbor attack.

Nothing that could ever be found under a tree could match the gift of just a little more time with that loved one

"And, as he punched me in the stomach, he growled, 'Don’t come in here,' referring to the lane in front of the basket," Columnist Terry Woster writes.

"As I grow older and reminisce about the old days in the news business, I think of people and odd moments more often than I think of the important stuff I covered," Columnist Terry Woster writes.