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Hello, Summer Vacation | from Area Woman Magazine

This story was reprinted with permission from the June-July issue of Area Woman Magazine. Summertime is nearly upon us, and so my husband and I have been spending our free time ensuring our children have none…
Superfan | June 1, 2022

If you’ve been watching the NHL Playoffs, you know that the Edmonton Oilers and the Colorado Avalanche are now competing in the Conference Finals; the winner of their series will play for the Stanley Cup. If…
Dad Garages | May 25, 2022

It’s graduation party season, which means that Kyle gets continuous access (and I get continuous commentary) to some of the awesome garages in Grand Forks. Before we were married, I foolishly assumed the purpose of a…
A thing of beauty | May 18, 2022

I am writing this from a massage (which is aggressively vibrating like the engine room in a submarine) chair at the nail salon, where I am getting a pedicure. Since you didn’t ask, my polish color…
Hockey Bubbes | May 11, 2022

My ten-year-old’s hockey team closed out the spring season with a tournament in Minneapolis. As his mother, I’m legally obligated to tell all of society (but, like, in a casual way) that they went undefeated, and…
Sunshine and May | May 4, 2022

As I type this, THE SUN IS SHINING. We’ve had roughly 100000000 grey days in a row this spring and I tell you what, it starts to wear on a person – like a hat with…
Axolotl | April 27, 2022

My ten-year-old has been campaigning pretty hard for an axolotl. An axolotl, for those of you who aren’t up on your Minecraft animals and/or exotic amphibians, is a carnivorous salamander that lives under water, has frilly…
Heavily Meditated | April 20, 2022

I don’t want to brag, but I am exceptionally good at worrying. If there is a real (or assumed) situation, issue, non-issue, or potential future scenario in need of a place to settle in, my brain…
The Great Scotcheroo Debate of 2022 | April 13, 2022

I had a completely different story lined up for this week, but my friend Corey and I had…let’s call it a “situation”…regarding Scotcheroos and Special K Bars – after which he commented, “I bet this is…
Friends for Life | Levity Brevity, April 12, 2022

I like to write little stories (usually called Flash Fiction), and figured I’d post a few of them here. This one is called “Friends for Life” and was the result of a writing prompt on an…

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