August Reset
My orientation around a school calendar remains even though I’ve not been in an academic setting for years and my children are well-past those years. Perhaps it is [...]
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Aug, 2023
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Nov, 2022
Loathsome Mothers
By now, many have read Finding Grace, and have deep feelings about Caroline and her style of mothering. One of my early reviewers used the term “loathsome” to [...]
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Oct, 2022
The Small Town Doc
One of my early readers for “Finding Grace” asked me about the inspiration for the fictitious character Dr. Walt Riley, the family doc in Two Harbors, Minnesota, who, [...]
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Sep, 2022
Desperate Teens
Now that Finding Grace is out in the world and I am on the book circuit, I get questions that pull me back to the inspiration behind the [...]
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Aug, 2022
Betwixt
’Tis the season of betwixt and between. Dog days of summer with school around a distant corner yet. The Minnesota State Fair starts ten days before Labor Day, [...]
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Jun, 2022
Father’s Day
Father’s Day is just around the corner, and for many of us the holiday brings memories of fathers long passed. My own Dad, a WWII veteran who went [...]
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May, 2022
Period of Adjustment
Life is full of surprises these days, and change can be exhilarating as well as challenging. But it is constant. Spring finally arrived in Minnesota and lasted just [...]
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Apr, 2022
And So It Begins
It doesn’t actually feel like spring in the Northland, but the first oceangoing vessel of the 2022 maritime shipping season arrived April 15th in the Port of Duluth-Superior [...]
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Feb, 2022
Cover Story
The time has come to introduce you to my second novel, Finding Grace. The drama of a cover reveal is a moment to be savored; I have been [...]
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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 [...]