It happens every single year. Guaranteed.  We wait and wait and wait, only to have our hopes raised and then dropped like snowflakes—just heavier and harder with a lot more uffda.   But then, it happens.   It’s suddenly summer in Minnesota.   When it decides to become summer, it does in fine style. Between […]

  Our language has a lot of uses for the word “face.” It can be a noun, describing the outward appearance or expression or front part of the head; it can also be a verb, meaning to confront or to look forward.   High schools are the epitome of the use of “face.” They are […]

When people say that it’s a small world, they don’t know just how small until they have lived in a small town. Life in northern Minnesota some days, though, it seems so much more than small, but rather incredibly intricate; really, each one of our stories so interwoven that we all make up the delicate […]

Minnesota is known for snow, and that is for good reason.   This is how, on the last day of the season, the land of the north can once again become a winter wonderland. This was the same morning I met Anna-Lisa and Brady, two expecting parents, at Hidden Falls Regional Park for a maternity […]