Join me for a little lunch. Or something. Sometimes.
We pay good money to watch horror movies, when all we have to do is step outside.
Collinwood, home to the Collins family, features gothic architecture and many candles in Dark Shadows Blue.
Things were being moved. Things were being eaten.
French poet, writer, and imp Apollinaire invented the calligramme. Minnesota’s famous shapes would make good calligrammes.
Minnesotans understand a funnel cloud, a menacing sky, the gusts of wind that mean business.
May we cherish those we love, and remember those with whom we’ve shared happy winter times.
When you have many children, it’s easy to forget one at Christmas. It hurts if you’re the forgotten one.
No one ever fought over the ribbon candy. But when I crumbled its sugary bones between my tongue and the roof of my mouth, I found it good.
I’m not a fan of Thanksgiving. I wish I was more like Cousin Lois and could see the holiday as an opportunity for reflection, food, and fun.
All Soul’s Day on November 2 is also known as Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or The Day of the Dead.
Lena and Mina were my grandmothers – Stearns County, Minnesota women who grew up and raised families in small towns around the Lake Wobegon Trail. Born in the USA, they spoke German and had German accents. As did my parents, who spoke only German until they went to school. As do some of my cousins, who have never lived anywhere but Stearns County. We’re quirky folks, like those in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Stearns town of Lake Wobegon. I’m Laurie Hilsgen, and if you’re reading this, you might be Wobegonian, too. Let’s celebrate our loony ways. Oh ja!
