Join me for a little lunch. Or something. Sometimes.
If you feel you should say something, or don’t know what to say, just say this.
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.
May we cherish those we love, and remember those with whom we’ve shared happy winter times.
It’s almost Halloween. Almost All Soul’s Day. Time for a ghost story. A true story.
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.
There were no bad bunnies in Stearns County.
It’s not easy to find a fairy cross rock.
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!
