About Mom

I was born in the 1940s and grew up in the 1950s but not in the idealized “Leave It to Beaver” household. Instead, as the daughter of a pastor/missionary, I spent my childhood on Indian reservations in Minnesota and North Dakota. (subject of my upcoming book, A Feather in My Hair)

I graduated from high school, went to college, got married, and became a mother in the 1960s.

In the 1970s my husband and I both started small businesses. He opened a retail carpet store and, two blocks up Main Street in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, I opened a craft and yarn store.

In the mid 1970s, we moved to a hobby farm to raise our three daughters and two sons. These were the years of the "back to the land" movement. We loved growing our own food and preserving it. We experimented with alternate energy before it was popular to do so and learned many ways to live more simply that we still practice today.

In 1985 we moved our family to the Twin Cities, and now live in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood of Saint Paul. We began to celebrate graduations, marriages and grandchildren.

I am a member of our church board and the chair of our congregation’s missions committee.

I love to travel. Recent trips have taken me to Alaska, Mexico, Spain, Morocco and Ecuador.

I love to learn, to explore and to share what I discover with others.

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