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Gail Rosenblum

Columnist | Metro

Phone: 612-673-7350

Email: gail.rosenblum@startribune.com

Gail Rosenblum writes two to three columns a week on people, social issues, trends, and the complexities of human relationships.
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Dale & Mark: Growing up, not apart

Dale Hulme and Mark Zingerman have been swimming together for 38 years. Their story began when a spiritual drifter found direction with the help of an autistic boy.

Updated: March 29, 2012, - 03:01 PM

Katie & Brooke: Friends, and sisters, too

Katie and Brooke were friends. Then they were sisters. And then the honeymoon was over -- until the Twin Cities girls took a groundbreaking trip to India together.

Updated: March 29, 2012, - 03:00 PM

Barbara & Margaret: Birds of a feather

For 30 years, Barbara Galambos, 80, and Margaret Mason, 81, have shared birding adventures. Every Tuesday at 9 a.m., after consulting the birding hot line, the friends drive to area nature centers.

Updated: March 29, 2012, - 02:59 PM

Carter & Charlotte: Taking steps together

While training for the World Masters Track & Field Championships four years ago, Carter Holmes, 62, had a massive heart attack, then a stroke. He walks now, largely thanks to 11-year-old Charlotte DeVaughn.

Updated: March 29, 2012, - 02:58 PM

Judy & Annie: Sharing love of music

Every week for nearly three years, Judy Nobles, 70, has wheeled Annie Schmitt , 97, into her St. Paul senior center's lounge for an organ lesson. They make beautiful music together.

Updated: March 29, 2012, - 02:56 PM

Rosenblum: Adoption agencies' new hard-to-place worry? Boys

At Children's Home Society & Family Services, Molly Rochon and her team of adoption professionals remain steadfast in their resolve to find loving families for all their waiting children.

Updated: March 24, 2012, - 09:21 PM

Rosenblum: Executives, there's still time to STEP-UP, so please do

For businesses on the fence about investing time and money in the STEP-UP Achieve summer jobs program, here are three reasons to jump in:

Updated: March 21, 2012, - 11:59 PM

Rosenblum: A new business grows in an unlikely place

Stay-C Kent looked up one morning at his regular Minneapolis Dunn Bros. and no longer saw a pile of burlap coffee bags. He saw his future.

Updated: March 19, 2012, - 09:45 PM

Cathy & Al: Moving to the beat

Cathy Bratter finds an escape from her hearing-impaired world through the Dancing Hands Music drumming classes of ex-lawyer Alan Dworsky.

Updated: March 16, 2012, - 02:25 PM

Dick & Gene: Still clipping along

Dick Kramer, 64, and Gene Tuftin, 58, are traditional guys, which means you won't find them on Facebook or Twitter. Their social network is called good old-fashioned, customer-is-always-right service at their Edina barbershop.

Updated: March 16, 2012, - 02:24 PM