My heart feels so full. It is wild to imagine my dads grandpa growing up on this farm. Now relatives live there. There were three siblings. Daniel, Herborg, and Sven. That was their birth order. Daniel was the oldest so he got the farm. But he fell in love with a gal who also had…
Category: Adventures
Touchdown Norway.
Oslo. September 15, 2022 at 12:46 pm I leaned over to my brother and pointed out the window as the plane smoothly lowered through the sky back towards ground. “Looks like Wisconsin.” He laughed and nodded. It really did. I pointed the same thing out to my Dad, who laughed and nodded. “Sure does.” No…
5 Road Trip Tips
Here are 5 road trip tips I have found help make my drive so much more fun… what tips have you found?
Nashville Win: Best smoothie yet
I am a lover of smoothies. Any tropical frozen blended drink is my favorite. Anywhere I go, I try to always drink the most amazing smoothies.Well, I don’t know that I try, I am just so delighted by smoothies.Randomly, Nashville has won the best smoothie of my life to date. E-Rose Wellness Cafe in Nashville,…
New Orleans
What I loved:
We have to do better.
We still have a long way to go. I would like to share some quotes. “Don’t monkey with white supremacy; it is loaded with determination, gun-powder, and dynamite.” Vickbsurg Commercial Herald, May 1889 Today people wonder if white supremacy is even real. Back then people fought with violence to protect it. In 1896 the United…
Des Moines Capitol — Women’s suffrage thoughts
Women’s suffrage has always been near to my heart. I don’t think some of us realize what people went through so that women can vote. Here’s one article. People faced imprisonment and a bunch of horrible things just to be able to do something we take for granted today. And that moves me. It moves…
5-Star Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, I would like to apologize. Before I started my road trip, I literally laughed to people about the fact that I would be passing through Des Moines, Iowa. I pictured a bigger city in the middle of not so big cities — sort of a “well, we had to put something on the…
I cried at the gym
I cried at the gym today. Now, I’m laughing as I write this because I am at the risk of painting a pretty bleak picture of gym life. Apparently I only feel the urge to write about the gym after struggling. I’ve had many happy gym days too! But I’m writing about it because it…