Join me for a little lunch. Or something. Sometimes.
Möchten sie gerne eine tasse kaffee?
Artist, architect, musician, journalist, poet, naturalist, medieval calligrapher, granite artisan, historian. His friends called him Glanny.
Ick is the new ish.
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.
When my sister turned 70 she wanted to shake things up. Have adventures. So she took up dumpster diving.
Minnesotans understand a funnel cloud, a menacing sky, the gusts of wind that mean business.
Residents of Fishers, Indiana resorted to signs to divert covert lawn poopers.
The truth is out there about the jar of pickles on the side of the road near Des Peres, Missouri.
Meh to the stiletto.
Collinwood, home to the Collins family, features gothic architecture and many candles in Dark Shadows Blue.
French poet, writer, and imp Apollinaire invented the calligramme. Minnesota’s famous shapes would make good calligrammes.
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!
