Unorganized Territory
Back on my feet
At least a couple of times a week, I have someone pointedly ask me, “And how is
your health?” Full Story
Undoing Racism–
Will it make a difference?
A little girl, back in the ‘30s, sent to Sunday School from age three, advised by her beloved father to “always think for yourself," yet surrounded by virulent racism and anti-Semitism, finally speaks up to her father, who yet again has spouted something noxious about “the Jews. Thelittle girl says, “But Daddy, Jesus was a Jew.” Full Story
Spiritual reflections
Another side of Christmas
“After they (the Wise Men)
had gone, an angel of the
Lord appeared to Joseph in a
dream, and said, “Get up, take
the child and his mother and
escape with them to Egypt,
and stay there until I tell you;
for Herod is going to search for
the child to kill him.” So Joseph
got up, took mo Full Story
Historical Reflections
Building the main lodge
Fourteen miles up the Caribou Trail is
Tait Lake. The roads around the lake,
Cap’s Trail and Billie’s Trail, were named
for my aunt and uncle Mathilde “Billie”
Petersen and Martin “Cap” Petersen.
They once owned the land upon which
today’s Tait Lake residents have built
their homes. Full Story
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago ·
Dec. 27, 1999 • On a clear night with 20-below temperatures, the last thing citizens of Cook County want is a power outage. But a power outage is what they got, countywide, on the night of Dec. 21. Full Story
OVER THE HILL
Graham crackers and miracles
They are so tiny, two little bundles of human life, swaddled and snuggling next to each other, sleeping peacefully in the silent winter night.
They are my newest grandchildren, a boy and a girl, born a week before Thanksgiving.
My oldest granddaughter, Natalie, age 4 1/2, tugs at my sleeve. “Can you play Barbies with me, Grandma?” Full Story
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