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More playing around on my phone, drawing on pictures. I checked out the library’s iPad… but immediately felt like I would have to DO REAL...

A group of picture book illustrators stayed at the B&B over Memorial weekend. I had met one of them at a SCBWI conference in Chicago last...

#Affirmation #CreativeLiving

A beautiful song by Kraja, for a beautiful afternoon on Lake Superior. Lyrics: Nu är det synd om dom döda som ej får sitta i vårens tid...

I’ve been telling stories at Nisswa-Stämman since 2001 or so, but this was my first year performing with Svea! We went to Lise...

The SVEA Singers will do a few songs as part of the spring choir concert on Thursday, May 18th. 7pm at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Grand...

I know I’m late to this party– I’m late to a lot of them. I finally watched “Moana” after catering to my 7-year-old son’s repeated...

From the “ScandiKitchen: Fika & Hygga” cookbook. This is also why planting seeds is hard for me– Is anything happening? How deep is 1/8th...

I upgraded yogurt to sour cream and oil to butter, and I added more grapefruit juice to this Bon Appetit recipe. #ArtHouseBampB #Baking...

Have a look at all of them. p.s. I suggested, half-jokingly, that we should put some of these up on Artist’s Point in Grand Marais....

You’re welcome: #Inspiration #ChildrensStory #Rap #SpokenWord #Ludacris

Wishing you a Happy New Year! #Rose

Pepparkakor are ultrathin Swedish gingerbread cookies. Besides being delicious, you can wish on them! Rest a pepparkaka in your palm and...

I’ve known Ross Sutter my whole life (quite literally– he was friends with my parents when they all lived at Hothorpe Hall in England)....

As soon as the ice would hold us My sisters and I went to our cousins’ farm everyday after school, Stumbled over lumpy earth and stubs...

I’ve always been drawn to books about people who don’t fit in– and this was a great one for that. Even though our heroine is the official...

I hope you’ll join me at Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais. I’ll perform stories from “The Marvelous Imagination of Katie Addams” and give...

I’ve been dressing up as Tomte Kajsa and performing with Ross Sutter for years at this lovely event. This is the first time we get to...

This is pretty cool. I connected with Sheryl Jensen, editor of The Woman Today, when I did “Cow Calls in Dalarna” earlier this summer....

It’s been a Deck-Paint-O-Rama the last few days. It’s a big job, at times hard on the ol’ shoulders (I don’t do a lot of activities with...