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I always had these very romanticized visions that my parents would be living in the home I grew up in and I’d drive over to their house on the weekends with my kids to visit and have a little Sunday Dinner and bake cookies.  Then there’s real life.
Instead, my children are still just 12 and 9 years-old but my parents [...]

First of all, as long as I’ve lived here, which is some 20 years now…. I’ll never get used to these river drownings. I understand that there are some inherent dangers that come with living in a river town, but most of these are absolutely preventable. So what do we do? I wanted to weigh [...]

I keep staring at the inside of my garage wondering where all the stuff came from. I actually think when you turn the lights out that my kids toys are mysteriously multiplying. I know, I know you’ll say “just have a garage sale”. I hate having garage sales! Then I have to spend two weekends just [...]

I don’t know about everybody else, but there are days that I’m just trying to stay warm. It’s so cold to me that I wouldn’t dream of snowmobiling, skating, skiing or sledding. As soon as the single digits hit, I’m thinking about reading a book, renting a movie, making a new dinner recipe or baking. And [...]

I had a great chance this past weekend to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather by plane! My friend Marty was kind enough to take my kids and me about 3,000 feet above the coulee region. What a way to see it! Just a four seater Cessna… but a lot more fun than a big plane [...]