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Been up since 4am, had to milk the cows before I fed the sheep and chickens, weeded the carrots and moss rose, put medicine on the dog’s foot, let the orphaned ducks out of the pen, and fed the kids lunch…had I been mom! Or rode with Ike to where we’re logging in the woods out toward Effie…trees falling…it’s what I’d do…if I were dad. But that was then and this is… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: "Hide and Seek, "Regime Change", "The Kayak Lady: One Woman One Kayak and 1007 Lakes, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China", Aldi's, Countryside Creamery Pure Irish Butter, FOREST HILL CEMETERY, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Jonathan Swan, Jung Chang, Koochiching County Recorders Office, Maggie Haberman, Mary Shideler, Minnesota, Northome, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Soren Sveistrup
This summer vacation my friend Celia came to visit my Minnesota visit. We played: talking arguing teasing touristing eating. What a nice time it was. Here’s an album to prove it. Above three photos: Naniboujou Lodge & Restaurant north of Grand Marais, MN Sven & Ole’s Pizza is a most popular Grand Marais landmark…and since my dad’s name was Sven I find the pizza delicious. Lake Superior island from the walls encircling… Read More
There is an old hymn/country song called “This Old House” by Stuart Hamblen? A few lines may jog old-old people’s memories. “Ain’t gonna need this house no longer/Ain’t gonna need this house no more/Ain’t got time to fix the shingles/Ain’t got time to fix the floor…” As I prepared to make a post that’s mostly an album of photos of my old home, it started running through my head. Yes, I know,… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: BOB DYLAN, Minnesota, old homes, This Old House by Stuart Hamblin
Growing up, we didn’t refer to the tree-filled acres around our house as the forest. We called it the woods. So even though forests blanket other places and regions, to me it always sounds presumptuous to label our miles of northern Minnesota trees so grandly. Anyway, I’m home in the Northwoods as I write and cannot decide whether ‘home in Minnesota’ blog posts should be considered part of the Decades series I… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Delta airlines, Family, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Travel
Just a few days ago I was writing about the Norway and the Nesets of olden times…and then some of the descendants appeared on my doorstep! Anne Hilde Neset, her daughter Mathilde, and husband Rob stopped for a few days while touring the west. It was wonderful on many levels. They are all great fun and interesting in terms of their personal and professional lives. Easy to be around, talking, laughing, eating…. Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Minnesota, Neset family, Norway, pleasure of visitors
Just when I vow to step back, take a deep breath, for a few hours view politics from afar, knowing (and not exactly forgetting) the horrors of so many lives: the refugees and other homeless humans, those mired in death and starvation in countless deadly military/gang/thug actions around the world—it gets personal in various ways. For starters, personally terrifying in the way fascism, communism, capitalism, all creep up and into, if not… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: MAGA and Republican Goons, Minnesota, POLITICS, WALLEYE
…south from Northome on Highway 71 about six miles, turn right on a gravel road, every year feeling a tingle of anticipation, another mile and a half and there it is, lane up to the house grown over, house collapsing into the earth, young spruce growing out of and into the old log kitchen. The Old Place. The time when it was everything recedes further and further in the distance. My mind’s… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Minnesota, Northome, the "Old Place", Time and Place
Time for the grand summer blog post…or two. True, summer’s not officially over, but the temperature has dropped two, three degrees and I’m hopeful. Summer of 2025. Highlights. Scott visits. Steve and his dog hang out with us a lot. We visit Minnesota, Robert and friends and the Old Place. End of story. Unless something of great consequence happens between now and September 1st. No matter what anyone tells you, that is… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Bridgie Township, Grand Rapids MN, Minnesota, Mississippi River, ROSEAU, Scott & Steven, Scott the cyclist
The reality of having my eldest son live in the Philippines is daunting in the sense that…I am seriously old… and the PI is a long ways away. At least 36 or more hours at best. This is me vulnerable and cranky and needy, okay? But, as with many things in life there’s an upside. This is me being Pollyanna. Scott comes home a couple of times a year and stays a… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Bemidji, Family, Kamala Harris, Minnesota, Philippines
The best thing about blogging my journal or journaling on my blog is that I get to share pictures, adventures, and opinions simply for purposes of reminiscing (when I’m old!). Or I can believe that my sharing includes the entire world. And it doesn’t really matter. My pleasurable time with words and pictures has been had. About NOW. Pretty amazing by anyone’s estimation. Joe Biden did himself proud. And who knows, maybe… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Joe Biden, Minnesota, northwoods
A link to my book,Window Seat, The Story of a Traveling LifeTIME AND PLACE