Join me for a little lunch. Or something. Sometimes.
Möchten sie gerne eine tasse kaffee?
She was young, 23 or 24. I told her things would get better. That a new start and making new friends in a new place takes time.
Mannequins are freaky and sometimes disturbing. I see them everywhere and can’t help photographing them.
May 27 is a good day to spend at cemeteries, tidying the graves of veterans and other loved ones, and sharing family stories.
We didn’t have jewels in our family but we had buttons. And Verne Gagne.
Artist, architect, musician, journalist, poet, naturalist, medieval calligrapher, granite artisan, historian. His friends called him Glanny.
There were no bad bunnies in Stearns County.
It’s not easy to find a fairy cross rock.
We listened to the rustle of grasses, the leaves in the trees, the distant traffic. But after a few days I realised there was no birdsong.
I didn’t bake a single cookie in December. Not one.
It’s the town that welcomes you with a smile, and a cinnamon roll at Charlie’s Cafe.
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!
