Part 4 – A Look Back at my Cancer Journey – MAYDAY!
(Modified from a journal entry/family update email dated May 1, 2006. It may have been [...]
Obstacle Racing – 2016 World Competition, Toronto Canada
(Adapted from a 10/2016 family update email. As a result of my Spartan Sprint 2nd [...]
Part 3 – A Look Back at my Cancer Journey – PET Scans and Ports
(Note: The following are three excerpts from family email updates in 2006.) Thursday, April 20, [...]
Shifting Gears – life changes and new directions
(From June, 2016, about a month after being laid off from my job of 24+ [...]
Part 2 – A Look Back at my Cancer Journey – Diagnosis, Tests and Staging
(Note: I just realized that the calendar days from 2006 are the same as in 2011. April [...]
First Spartan Race – Minnesota Sprint 2016
Spartan Racing - the Senior Version! As some of you know, I participated in my [...]
Classic Basil Pesto
(This is what I make every year when our garden basil is at its peak. [...]
“Better Than Scout” Cookies
The original recipe was based loosely on the flavor of the the Girl Scout Samoa [...]
Nutty Bars
This recipe first appeared in our local newspaper 10+ years ago, and was created (as [...]
Dates with Dirt
As the 5th child of 10, I grew up in rural North Dakota on land [...]