Sweet Anticipation
Turning the page to the delight of December! After a long roller coaster ride filled with dread, gotchas and two many pivots to count, I’m giving myself the [...]
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Dec, 2021
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Nov, 2021
The Gales of November
Lake Superior is on my mind…Today, the 46th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald will be marked by the annual memorial service held at Split Rock [...]
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Aug, 2021
August is for Thrillers….
No contest really….I choose escape this month! With unending news reports of a screaming Delta variant, climate change weather warnings, images of an inglorious end to a twenty-year [...]
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Jul, 2021
The mommy bind…again, forever?
One of the two toughest life lessons I ever learned was that motherhood, as a role, is not easily delegated. The other was that bias is at work [...]
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Jun, 2021
Ongoingness requires adjustments….
June is whizzing by this year. Seems like the business of carefully re-opening to pre-pandemic experiences consumes lots of energy! It’s been so fun to venture forth without [...]
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May, 2021
A Better Next turns TWO!
And now A Better Next is two! On May 28th, my debut novel will hit the second anniversary of its pub date. My first year out was fast [...]
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Apr, 2021
It Ain’t Over ’til …..?
That sentence can be answered in a variety of ways, but the only one that really matters is how we answer it for ourselves. What a noisy time [...]
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Mar, 2021
Re-entry Jitters?
Wow! It’s not over, of course, but do I see a ray of light around the corner? My second shot is scheduled for next week! Many friends have [...]
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Feb, 2021
Cleaning Closets
It’s not an urge really—but a gnawing. Persistent, and unwelcome. It starts as one of those fleeting thoughts one has that it is probably time, but you push [...]
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Jan, 2021
Seeking Serenity in Solitude
My favorite kind of winter in Minnesota this year--not much snow and very mild temperatures. Of course, we’re hardly through it. As a farmer’s daughter, I know not [...]