If it was possible, I would have only printed blank pages in our newspaper this week.

I don’t have the heart to write.

We’ve all heard the term “broken heart” before, but I never really understood what it meant, or how it felt, until now.

The following puppy was found yesterday by a resident in Shakopee's Southbridge area: 

"I think she is a lab mix, mostly black with a little white. Probably
about 4 months old. We have called animal control and no one has reported her
missing. Petland says she does not have a chip. She is very sweet. I would
keep her but my son is allergic to shedding dogs. Petland says they will take
her, bring her to the vet and then put her up for adoption. I will have to

"What is the best date you've ever been on? Where did you
go? What did you do? What did you eat? Did you dress up? Was your
evening/day themed?"

Just got asked these questions rom a friend who was recently married. She and her husband plan to have a "date night ideas" basket and every thursday take turns picking an idea from the basket. The instructions tell them what they're supposed to do for the evening. (Talk about keeping romance in one's marriage right from the start!)

As I often do, I looked inside my Happenings coupon book on Wednesday night to decide where to go with my friend for supper. We settled on the Mediterrenean Cruise Cafe in western Eagan, which I had been wanting to try and there was a buy-one dinner entree, get one free coupon good for up to $10.

Perhaps as much as the quality of food served, restrooms can turn me on or off to a restaurant.

I assume that if a business keeps its bathrooms sparkly clean, chances it has the same habits in the kitchen. Unfortunately, you often don't get to see the restroom until after you've ordered your food. But now you can learn from other people's experience in public restrooms on MizPee Web site, which is accessible through your cell phone too.

As much as I dislike running into creeps occasionally on Craigslist or MySpace, I’ve come to appreciate these Web sites for their use in exposing creeps.

Just in, just in. CUB Foods in Shakopee is selling 1919 root beer by the keg. Lion's Tap in Eden Prairie also sells it on tap.

If any group of people is more self-promoting than chiropractors, real estate agents and multi-level marketers, it's got to be musicians. 

As a former daily traveler of University Avenue between St. Paul and Minneapolis, I always thought that if any place made since for a light rail line, that would be it. The road is super busy and is a major conduit between the cities, with much of the population likely to use transit.

I just received the following group e-mail from Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, in which he makes some good points about the cost of the project. Read it and tell me what you think:

I've heard a lot of reasons why the federal government shouldn't  issues rebates to try to boost the economy - such as the people who are getting it didn't really pay the taxes, it's spending money the government doesn't have and will only increase our national debt and it is encouraging consumer one-time spending and inflation instead of permanent business growth and worker productivity.

I got the following forwarded from a friend and I think it's a hilarious - and perhaps somewhat true-- take on the situation: