My new book is releasing November 1—just 28 days from now! I’m blogging samples of it for the next several weeks. It was August of 1999, and I was a late-twenty-something whose life was not going according to plan. There was no spouse, and no prospects were in...
My new book is releasing November 1—just 35 days from now! For the next several weeks, I’ll be blogging samples of it. My dad liked to walk the neighborhood for exercise and probably his own sanity. When my siblings and I were children, we often accompanied him. I...
My new book is releasing November 1—just 42 days from now! For the next several weeks, I’ll be blogging samples of it…beginning today with the book’s introduction. My high school geography class spent a lot of time making maps. Topographic maps, road...
As sure as the compass points north, I was lost. That night I was driving in downtown Minneapolis for the first time, having moved to the area only a few months earlier. A single woman without a smartphone, I fought the suffocating darkness—both within and without—as...
Most Minnesota mornings find one of us walking the dog. Zuzu takes the lead, ears bobbing and curlicue tail flipped over her back as she trots down the sidewalk of her choice—and yes, she does have an opinion. One of my favorite routes takes us along a cornfield...
The Israelites had some mountaintop experiences in the colorful years after the exodus from Egyptian slavery. The midnight hustle out of Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the first morning of manna were all occasions for celebration. Surely one of the most...
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