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Ask any author what is the single most difficult part of the job and you’ll get a dozen different answers. What most will agree, however, is that getting people to buy your book can be frustrating as heck. You’ve spent months, or in some cases even years, hammering out your masterpiece and somehow landed aContinue reading “Did I Mention It’s Free?”

Each week as I sit down at my computer to write my blog, I try to imagine just what I might want to read about if I was reading the words of a complete stranger. In these columns, I have espoused my feelings about any number of topics including war, poverty, the animal kingdom, friends,Continue reading “Opinions of Our Own”

This week in America, we reached a long overdue milestone. The first Black female Justice of the Supreme Court was confirmed. Certainly, this is a time for celebrating our country’s progress in trying to afford all Americans equality and opportunity, yet I can’t help but realize that we still have so very far to go.Continue reading “A Step Closer”

March 29, 1998 was the day that changed Saint Peter.  It was much too early in the season for storms, yet winds blew, sirens howled, and people fled to safety as much of what man created was destroyed in Saint Peter, Comfrey and other areas along the path of the fierce storm.  For a briefContinue reading “The Day Everything Changed”

Today is the official start of Spring and much like New Year’s, it is a time of renewal and rebirth.  A time of joy and promise. It’s true that Spring “officially” happens March 20th, but here in Minnesota, Spring is usually much more of a dream at this point in the calendar as snow moreContinue reading “The Promise of Spring”

Who do you carry in your heart?  It’s a thought that has been running through my mind with the release of my newest book. Hearts are funny things and the people who worm their way into our hearts aren’t always who you may think.  Family and friends and pets top the list, but odds areContinue reading “I Carry Your Heart”

Normally I shy away from promoting political views through this venue, but I must make an exception. Do you remember a time when there wasn’t a war somewhere on the globe? Many cannot and as we watch what unfolded this week at the hands of a man who apparently believes he can act with impunityContinue reading “War…”

Coming Together…. Every four years the world comes together to celebrate sportsmanship and unity.  We cheer for underdogs and experience shared sorrow at loss. We rejoice in the human spirit and the comraderie that comes from global excellence.  Of course I am speaking of the Olympics. But here in Minnesota, we recently celebrated our ownContinue reading “State of Hockey”

We’re coming to the end of another eventful year and with that day comes a dilemma. Do we look forward or back? Have you ever really stopped to think about that choice before now?  Maybe we all should. The world has struggled through a second year of the pandemic – people dying and families mourningContinue reading “Forward or Back?”

As my part of Minnesota hunkered down in preparation for the first major snowstorm of the season, other parts of the country went about their day with no great urgency or fear.  We woke up to snow. They woke up to disaster. A historic tornado outbreak struck across the Midwest and Southeast parts of theContinue reading “Waking Up to Disaster”