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My Weekend With Grandma

So How Many of You Are Fortunate Enough to Have a Living Grandparent? I have three. I know I’m extremely[…]

The mind and heart of a child: unfettered appreciation, unending possibilities, and the power to make an adult soften[…]

The future looks very different through the eyes of different generations. A grandma trying out virtual realty for the first[…]

As a boy, the holiday family gathering routine was simple and consistent: There was one feast for my mother’s side[…]

My interviews from the Pacific Northwest were complete. I was heading home. Driving the hundreds of hundreds of miles back[…]

Home. What is home? Merriam-Webster’s dictionary gives us two definitions: 1) the place (such as a house or apartment) where[…]

Over the weekend, I hosted two book release events in Bemidji and Minneapolis. My book, Life Learned Abroad: Lessons on[…]

Maybe that’s a good thing. Because maybe what gets sacrificed when suddenly adding all those zeroes to your bank account[…]

Due to a quirk in the family schedule we decided to celebrate Thanksgiving over Saturday and Sunday this year. And[…]

This is a piece about our connection to ancestors, their way of life in the Midwest, and these discoveries through[…]