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Election week is upon us in the U.S.A and it feels like we are perilously close to the edge of a division that we may not be able to back…
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My son Ben has significant intellectual disabilities. As a result, he has a very small vocabulary consisting of only nouns and verbs. If I say, “Do you want ice cream?”…
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Do you remember writing about summer vacation for the first assignment of the school year? What would you write this year? I am tallying up a number of gains and…
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I shared this article on the Perennial Gen website this week. Enjoy!https://theperennialgen.com/worship-school/
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I watch you nod off on the couch this evening, gray head drooping and reading glasses sliding down your nose and I realize we’ve done it. We have succeeded in…
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A Great Blue Heron has been perching at the end of our dock lately, so I decided to try to get close enough for a picture. He kept a wary eye…
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We took a little getaway recently, just me, my husband and our 28 year old son who has intellectual disabilities. We had planned some fun activities, but from the moment…
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Here’s a look back at a post from this time last year, before my blog was public: Autumn in northern Minnesota is simply spectacular. My morning walks are graced with…
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Most of the world is under a mask mandate right now. Some view it as a commonsense way to help slow the spread of Covid. Some wear a mask as…
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We rambled through the forest, sliding on pine needles and scrambling over granite, heading nowhere except to explore the beauty of the day and the mountains we lived in. We…

















