I am humbled by an article fellow folk blogger, Audrey Kletscher Helbling, has written about adventures with my traveling buddy, Melanie, for a brand new publication, called Midwest Mix magazine, published in Springfield, MN.   And what an honor to be included in their flagship edition!  As far as the photographs of Melanie and me, well, I think we look thinner and younger in real life. Audrey also includes some of the places and people I've written about, ... Read Full Story

My friend, Angie, and I allowed ourselves to be picked up by some forty-ish rockers to ride along out to Fort Snelling in Saint Paul, Minnesota.  It was quite a ride.  We sat in back and got a chance to see a whole lot of air-guitar and head-banging. It was actually kind of fun and reminded me of back in the days when being spontaneous was second nature and we understood how to be in the moment.  The point of our trip was to attend an open house and step behind the veil at ... Read Full Story

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My friend, Cindy, and I drove to Montevideo for my annual pedicure at the Nirvana Salon.  This was only my second one, and I resisted the first.  You know how you get an idea in your head about who you are?  I have always considered myself a no-nonsense kind of person when it comes to pampering myself.  Cindy, on the other hand, has always been a girly girl. I was able to reconcile my ambivalence, however, when I considered that my self-indulgence was actually good ... Read Full Story

Art imitating life at the Historic Swensson Farm in Chippewa County, Minnesota. Kinda.       Read Full Story

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Click here to listen to Episode 8Join Minnesota County Mouse Radio for a stop at Garrison Keillor's St. Paul Bookstore, Common Good Books.  We also remember writers Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.I read a poem by award-winning author, Joe Paddock of Litchfield, Minnesota, and you get to join me for a moment of reality radio with my good friend Melanie. Read Full Story

Do you see a face in the orb floating above this sentence?  Once again, my friend, Cindy, predicted an orb if I took a picture, this time of the porch at the Historic Swensson Farm in Chippewa County, Minnesota, and once again, an orb showed up on my photo.  She wouldn't come anywhere near the porch and worried when I disappeared behind a bush while photographing this turn of the century, 22 room home.Cindy and I have been enjoying the delicious terror of the supernatural since we w... Read Full Story

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