It’s going to be sixty-two in Minnesota today, so we’re all in a pretty good mood around here.  The snow is melting at record speed, the cat even went out and sat under a pine tree for a while this morning.  Everyone likes to bask in all the sunshine we’ve been missing for months. J … Continue reading Ramblin’ and Such →

Jo followed the nurse out, gently pulling the door closed so she wouldn’t wake her sleeping daughter. Twenty-one or not, when Ava lay sick in the hospital she was still her baby. Leaning against the door, she closed her eyes and hung her head, thoughts racing. Hadn’t she always feared it might come to this? … Continue reading Fiction →

Tomorrow it will be one week since I picked up my violin and, in case you were wondering, I’m still pretty bad at it. The deer in the backyard are like, “Let’s come back later when she’s done,” once I start playing and I already told you the cat leaves the room at the idea … Continue reading The Week →

Guess what day it is? It’s the day before my new violin arrives! Well, to be honest, it might not be new and its certainly not mine. Even though I have wanted to play the violin for years and years now, I still have a little bit of anxiety about whether I will ACTUALLY be … Continue reading The Weekend →

I was going to do some work tonight, because I have a looming deadline and a nagging uneasy feeling that not putting the time in today will result in having to work until midnight tomorrow, but then I also determined that I really needed some ME time. It’s been weeks now. I’ve been working long … Continue reading One Thing at a Time →

Dear Diet Diary, Day 1 J is home late from work, because he had to go get a new handle for the upstairs toilet, which broke earlier today. I know in my head that it would not be nice for me to eat dinner without him because he is doing this very nice thing for … Continue reading Dear Diet Diary →

Well, it’s finally our one-year wedding anniversary tomorrow, so I have officially taken the wedding cake out of the freezer to defrost. I don’t even know why I froze it to begin with. Somewhere along the line someone told me that you’re supposed to freeze the top of your wedding cake to eat on your … Continue reading Conquered →

I don’t know if you guys have heard yet, but it is COLD here in the North. It’s cold enough that today, on New Years day, I have a chance to get a million things done but instead I am like, “Is it really worth risking my life to go to the grocery store?” Sister … Continue reading Have You Heard →

“I am one of eight kids,” he began, “my name is Brad. When you have eight kids, it’s easy to get a baseball or softball game going out in the yard, so growing up we did that a lot. Because we were wealthy,” he paused and the audience laughed, everyone knows that farming was a … Continue reading Back to the Farm →

Baseball used to be my thing. Growing up, Grandpa would get tickets from work for right behind home plate that he shared with the family, and Dad obtained some magical unscrambler box that let us watch all the Minnesota Twins games, because home games are not televised on regular TV. I was the 1987 World … Continue reading I Heart Hockey →