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Trick or Treating with the Pig Farmer
Childhood Halloweens are pretty well etched into my memory, but the one that stands out in my mind is the year that my brother Mike dressed as a pig farmer and took us trick or treating. That was the...
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Of Sheep, A Dog, and Monday Morning
It’s a cold, windy, drizzly November morning. This is the sort of weather that really just makes me want to trade lives with Spot the dog. My day began slightly before 5 AM, when my two-year-old woke...
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My Friday Night Happy Hour: Pizza, Popcorn and a Pig Pile
Of all the routines in my life, one of the most important to me is Friday night. That is my Happy Hour, although it involves no bar. Happy Hour for me is Movie Night: pizza, popcorn, and a pig pile of...
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Over the Missouri and Across the Plains to Grandmother’s House We Go
At night, I sometimes love South Dakota. The majority of the tacky tourist signs have no lights, so they just fade away. . . .It’s nothing but empty highway surrounded by wide open prairie under a...
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Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Puking Children
Memories of last year’s road trip…Alone in the middle of nowhere with puke, diarrhea, sick crying baby, mess, four kids to care for and still 700 miles of driving to go before home…now this is livin’....
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The Best Gift Ever
After a 2,000 mile Thanksgiving road trip, followed by a week of post-road trip utter exhaustion, we’re in full speed Christmas mode at our house. Mounds of boots by the door: check. Christmas tree cut...
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12 Days of Christmas, Crammed into 7
Written December 2013. Merry Christmas, everyone! I’d like to wish you something about visions of sugar plums, snow flakes gently falling, silent nights, all is calm, sleigh bells jingling…blah, blah,...
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Greetings from Frostbite Farm, MN
Written January 2014. Something about a -50 windchill on this Monday morning makes all other thoughts that don’t concern cold and survival just evaporate. When we got up this morning, something wasn’t...
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Dandelions and Marshmallow Guns
When it comes to dandelions, the world pretty much divides into two camps: love or hate. Flower or weed. Cheery springtime yellow flower or scourge upon the perfect lawn. People even divide up into...
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Face Time: An Interview with my Kids
Summer’s perfect for quality time with kids, but I’ve got to say, sometimes I think I’m getting a little more quantity than quality. We eat three meals a day together, but the current favorite...
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