I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed reading a book more than I enjoyed reading Amy Scheibe’s A Fireproof Home for the Bride. The story is fiction so it didn’t happen, but, as is always the case with good storytelling, it could have happened. I know because I was there at the time of the story—1958—inContinue reading “Book Review: A Fireproof Home for the Bride”
Tag Archives: Minnesota
Guardian Angel III
“Ancient Guardian Angel Sculpture” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Vicon Eco Systems Construction At the end of my first semester at California State University, I traveled back to Minnesota for the summer. I had hoped to find either a summer job or a volunteer opportunity, but by the time I arrived, car troubles had drained my financial resources, andContinue reading “Guardian Angel III”
Guardian Angel II
“angel” (CC BY 2.0) by maphler The summer following my first semester at California State University at San Francisco proved to be a real test for my guardian angel. I had no classes in the summer so I set off for Minnesota, to spend the summer with family and relax before returning in the fall. I hopedContinue reading “Guardian Angel II”
Book Review: Unto a Good Land
Vilhelm Moberg’s Unto a Good Land continues the story of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson’s band of Swedish emigrants from Småland, southern Sweden, from New York where the group landed at the end of the first book in this series to Washington County in Minnesota, near Stillwater. The group make their way by riverboat, train,Continue reading “Book Review: Unto a Good Land”
L is for Lake Winnibigoshish
“Minnesota Lakes” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by evinella I thought I was too old for family vacations. I wanted to stay home, alone, while my parents took my five siblings. Dad wouldn’t say where we were going. He had never done that before–not told us. But Mom insisted I not stay home alone. I don’t think she thought IContinue reading “L is for Lake Winnibigoshish”
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