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  • Female Friendships: Keeping Me Afloat in the Sea of Testosterone

    I love my husband.  I love my teenaged boys.  Thank goodness for my female friendships. These were my thoughts as I drove home from book club this evening. In my rather unscientific study of the subject of the differences between men and women, undertaken while raising two boys and enjoying over 20 years of marriage to…

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  • Phoneography Challenge: My Neighborhood

    After shoveling the fresh, heavy wet snow this morning, my faithful friend and I headed out into the neighborhood for a walk (with phone in hand, ready to capture a few shots for this week’s photo challenge).  Clumps of wet snow periodically fell from the trees, crows called to each other from snow-covered tree tops,…

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  • On the Beaten Path is Sometimes Worthwhile

    If you research campgrounds at Glacier National Park, as I did before we camped there several summers ago, the Many Glacier Campground on the eastern side of the Park is usually described as “one of the most popular” campgrounds in the Park.  For me, phrases like that are usually a red flashing warning sign to…

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  • Family Road Trips: Time Together that Breaks and Bonds

    As parents before us always cautioned, “Time goes so fast, enjoy it before it’s gone.”  Words of wisdom, and words we tried to heed in between those other moments when every parent feels that a little alone time would not be so bad?  So it goes with the family road trip. My recent travel consisted…

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  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

    The North Shore of Lake Superior is a place where one can easily get lost in the details. While its beauty is great when taking in the broader view, it is when one gets down on hands and knees, and really examines the shoreline up close, that the exquisite designs of nature are discovered. “Look…

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  • A Sauna for All Seasons

    I am a relative newcomer to the Minnesota sauna culture.  [Note before proceeding further:  sauna is pronounced SOW-na, not SAW-na. Use this handy pronunciation guide from PBS if you need further instruction!]  If my husband had his druthers, a sauna would have been the first structure on our little piece of lake property in the northern Minnesota…

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