SAM COOK
‘T’ is for ‘Thanks, teachers’ 
SAM COOK: This is for the one who stands before our kids every morning to unveil the mysteries of multiplication tables or the bicameral legislative system or centrifugal force.
By Sam Cook , June 07, 2013
Phone free is the way to be
SAM COOK: I miss Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and Van Morrison. I miss the sound of a mallard quacking, telling me I’m getting a call from a friend. Yep. I’m operating untethered this week.
By Sam Cook , May 31, 2013
Sam Cook: Moms made for outdoors
Maybe Minnesota’s moms are behind this late ice-out scenario. Maybe they just got a little weary of sharing their Mother’s Day weekend with the opening weekend of Minnesota’s fishing season.
By Sam Cook , May 10, 2013
It’s time to get down and dirty
SAM COOK: No matter what manner of physical activity you pursue this time of year, you’re looking for trouble.
By Sam Cook , May 03, 2013
We choose to put up with more
SAM COOK: One morning last weekend, I rose early and took my book to the patio. No breeze stirred. The water in the pool was glass. Nobody else was up.
By Sam Cook , April 19, 2013
Sam Cook column: It’s April. What did you expect?
My wife, Phyllis, was sitting at the computer the other night when she began laughing. A friend of hers, according to a Facebook post, said her young son had looked out the window and started singing, “Jingle Bells.”
By Sam Cook , April 12, 2013
Southern loon’s call moves the mind north
SAM COOK: I stepped out of my tent last Friday morning and heard the unmistakable cry of a loon. But the bird wasn’t anywhere near Minnesota.
By Sam Cook , April 05, 2013
Eh? Sam Cook returns April 5
Sam Cook’s column will return in this spot next week.
By News Tribune staff , March 29, 2013
Sam Cook: Sticker surprise causes short-lived embarrassment
Most of us try to maintain a decent image of ourselves. Just a sense of, “I’m OK. I’m getting by. I’m doing all right today.” I mean, don’t we?
By Sam Cook , March 22, 2013
Satisfied with signs of smoke
Sam Cook column: Like a lot of other non-Catholics, I suppose, I was fascinated once again this week by the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke, no new pope yet. White smoke, new pope.
By Sam Cook , March 15, 2013
Shades of the many who paved the way
SAM COOK: We like to think we choose our own path in life, set our goals and make our way in the world. But sometimes we take for granted those who opened our eyes to new horizons, took a chance on us or provided course corrections along the way.
By Sam Cook , March 08, 2013
Performance-enhanced ice-fishing? Don’t be a dope
SAM COOK: Now comes word, from no less than the New York Times, that drug-testing has come to ice-fishing Let’s idle our jigging rods just long enough to ponder a few things. Mainly, how in the world could performance-enhancing drugs improve your ice fishing? More animated jigging action? Better control of your power auger?
By Sam Cook , March 01, 2013
Watching the wolves
SAM COOK: I see the two dark forms up ahead, perhaps a half-mile down Round Lake off the Gunflint Trail. They are stationary, like two old anglers hunched over fishing holes on the ice. But that would be an odd place to see a couple of ice anglers, I think.
By Sam Cook , February 22, 2013
Birders keep their distance
SAM COOK: Two of us were driving down Homestead Road near Duluth last Saturday when we saw several cars pulled off the road. Warmly dressed people with binoculars and spotting scopes were lined up, facing west.
By Sam Cook , February 15, 2013
What is Minnesota without moose?
SAM COOK: Imagine. No more moose in Minnesota. That possibility seems much more plausible after news on Wednesday that the state’s moose population had dropped an unprecedented 35 percent in one year.
By Sam Cook , February 08, 2013
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