September 13, 2021

Empty Monuments

“Looks like I’ve got everything I wanted to get.”  My friend closed the car trunk filled with a few remnants of her parents’ lives. She sighed as she said her good-byes. She’d inherited this place and over the years it had been good. Now it was a little too far […]
June 9, 2021

Trolls

As our boat glided under one of the many small bridges sprinkled over Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes something bright and colorful caught my eye. Perched on a ledge were five little goofy troll dolls grinning down at us from a perch where someone placed them. Each of the trolls smiled out […]