Inflammatory bowel issues? MPR News with Dr. Justin Howard

| August 2, 2026

It was great to catch up with each of my nephews and nieces … and their now many children … during last week’s family reunion at a Hocking Hills lodge. The cousins gelled as if they were never apart … almost as if no time elapsed. BUT … they are now the parents of the […]

Archive: KDAE vacationing in Minnesota with the Howards

| July 31, 2024

The Oostras are vacationing back in Minnesota and enjoying time “stomping” around the areas near Minneapolis (and in Wayzata) where they spent a few years early of marriage. They initially spent some time with friends “in the city” then up with cousin Justin and Katie Howard and their family of five now at at their […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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