Lindon Dodd

2 weeks ago | newsandtribune.com | Lindon Dodd

“If I didn’t write, I’d be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.”- Harlan Coben. I learned the hard way about things men think they know when it comes to things female. Understand, you will never know everything, you will never know enough, and you will never know anything instinctively. The best way is to learn second hand from people like me who kind of went into things blindly and always seemingly unaware of all things domestic about which I was truly ignorant.

4 weeks ago | newsandtribune.com | Lindon Dodd

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1 month ago | newsandtribune.com | Lindon Dodd

“Everybody has value, even if it is to serve as a bad example!” — Atilla the HunOne score and 10 years ago I brought forth to this city a newspaper column dedicated to the proposition that all stories are worth telling. I just broke the cardinal rule of writing. Never try to write like someone else. That Lincoln guy was a pretty astute wordsmith!kAmyFDE 2 76H 52JD 28@ E9:D ?6HDA2A6C 4@=F>? 46=63C2E65 :ED b_E9 3:CE952J] %92E 42? @?=J >62?

1 month ago | newsandtribune.com | Lindon Dodd

“Make time to cry.”- Advice from 100-year-old Nicki VarkevisserI am taking a trip down columns writer’s memory lane this week. For around a decade as a much younger columnist I wrote an annual Advice to Graduates column. I also composed a semi-regular column entitled, Stray Thoughts from a Cluttered Mind. Well, here they both are again this week in hybrid form. I will warn you, some of them are just for me. kAm}6G6C 3FJ 4962A 324@?]k^Am kAmtG6? :7 J@F 86E 2 42E :?DE625 @7 2 A:8 :?

1 month ago | newsandtribune.com | Lindon Dodd

“You can’t print that in the damn newspaper!”-oft refrain to me from the late Ted ThrockmortonWhen someone asks me if I would like to be their guests sitting in the rain all day long with 147,400 people there is just one obvious answer. Who wouldn’t? So, I did. kAmxE D66>D =:<6 H92E6G6C H2D DFAA@D65 E@ 92AA6? <6AE 86EE:?8 56=2J65 3J 9@CD6D CF??:?8 =@@D6 2== @G6C E96 EC24<] $@>6 7@=<D C:5:?8 9@CD6D H@F=5 82E96C 2== @7 E96 =@@D6 9@CD6D FA 2?5 AFE E96> :? 2? :C@?