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Dec.15.2012
This is my Christmas blog from last year. I wanted to share it with my readers again. In re-reading it I found memories of pleasures of a childhood Christmas surfing once again. These happy memories ended after I turned 13 and the abuse started but I consider myself fortunate to have them...
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Dec.17.2011
When I was a child Christmas was a shining light we waited for all year long. I spent my growing up years in the Midwest: Minnesota, North Dakota and Nebraska. One thing predictable about all three states is snow and lots of it. Whether we were going to get any on Christmas was another question and...
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Aug.20.2011
You don’t have to be a Bob Dylan fan to see that the times they are a changing.They always do. You can no more hold time in your hand and keep it from moving on than you can change the number of stars in the sky. The entire world is on a time table moving us through history into the future...
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Jun.29.2011
Perhaps the biggest touchstone in my life--though I didn't know it at the time--was when President John F. Kennedy spoke at Rice University's football stadium in Houston, Texas, in the late summer of 1962, the day before my tenth birthday. He said, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go...
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Jan.15.2011
I'm back at it, and excited to be writing my new book for girls, Annika At Wilderness Hotel - The Intruder. It too, will be on Amazon Kindle, and lulu.com, like its predecessor, Annika At Wilderness Hotel - The Finnish Spies, with the same list of characters, and at a very reasonable price.
Annika...
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Jan.15.2011
Annika At Wilderness Hotel - The Finnish Spies, is available at amazon.com, Kindle download, at a very reasonable price, as well as in paperback form, and at lulu.com in both forms.
Annika is a girl in the mid 1800's, who came to Minnesota in America, with her parents. The book give the reader a...
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Dec.26.2010
I knew my mother had a file in her desk labeled "My Funeral," where she had made her choices known. The trick was to find that folder since her desk and her whole house were gone--the latter bashed down, no less--when she sold her Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Usonian home to pay for her...
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Sep.29.2010
It's time for this year's Money Magazine "Best Places to Live," and the fact small towns dominate the list of 100 cities should come as no surprise. Overcrowding in America's modern metropolises presents a wide array of safety and logistical problems for families, not to mention...
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Sep.09.2010
For those of us who write books, our souls leap when we witness others gush over the love of a book, any book. We're reminded of how books can swim in the synapses of people, and we may flash on our own favorite tomes. In this morning's Los Angeles Times, book editor David Ulin writes about...
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Apr.12.2010
A few weeks ago, our family of five embarked on a cultural excursion to see the Saint Paul Cathedral - a historic Minnesota landmark. Before getting out of the car, my husband cautioned our little mini-me's in the backseat, "This is God's house. You need to be very quiet - no talking....
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