Recently, I drove around Aneta, N.D. on a golf cart with my 91-year-old grandpa, Oscar during Aneta’s 56th annual turkey barbeque. I like to say Aneta is a town of 250 people, 50 of whom are in the nursing home, which is the town’s largest employer. The community comes together every year to slow roast…
I Am Not Taking My Computer On Vacation
It’s come that time. For an annual vacation. It’s a crazy, wild ride when we launch to get away. We don’t have time. We can’t leave behind work. The kids will miss school. But we need to get away. This is a tiny window that works for us. We have family that is home. Our…
(During Lent) Christmas In The Country
Christmas has been over for six weeks. Lent begins today. But I don’t think Jesus minds my house still is celebrating his birth? I promised myself I would have my decorated house done with Christmas by today. But it’s still very Christmas cheery around here. Computer glitches, blog changes and the overflowing winter calendar with kids and work…