VISITING THE RANGE–PAUL WELLSTONE MEMORIAL SITE: M and I embarked on our trip to Minnesota’s Iron Range. On our way to Hibbing, we passed the sign for the Paul Wellstone Memorial and Historic Site. It is straight east… Read More
SPLIT ROCK LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATES: On May 25, 2023, M and I took a trip “Up North” for the opening of a new exhibit at Split Rock Lighthouse. Even though we have made this trip many times, the beauty… Read More
MEMORIAL DAY–A TIME TO REMEMBER*: Memorial Day is a federal holiday to remember and honor those persons who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Many of them were eager to go and fight for… Read More
FIVE SNIPPETS IN HONOR OF MY MOTHER: My mother, Hedwig (Jadwiga) Tokar, died in 2010 on her 93rd birthday. When I went back to Ohio for her funeral, I felt compelled to say a few words in her… Read More
PONDERING AS PATHS INTERSECT: Today, M and I attended a luncheon at a local country club. I was going to write about the talk we heard, but decided instead to blog about the things in life that we… Read More
WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER AND THE POWER OF STORIES: Last Thursday, Mark and I attended a fundraising breakfast for the Friends of the Ramsey County Library. Best-selling author, William Kent Krueger, (https://williamkentkrueger.com/) was the speaker. Not only is he… Read More
STUMBLING UPON HOPE: It has been a long winter here, a long snowy winter. We’ve had snow on the ground since November 30, 2022. That’s snow that stuck around. We had our first snow of the season on… Read More
PI-PIE DAY: (Didn’t have pie on pi day, but I did last year! Reprinting blog post from March 14, 2022.) If you look at the number 3.14 in the mirror, it spells “pie.” That was reason enough to… Read More
GUNS LEAVE A LINGERING SCENT: I’m reprinting a blog post that I wrote on June 4, 2022 about guns and the way a gun has impacted my life. At the time, I had hoped that the gun violence… Read More
THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT JUST KEEPS CHUGGING!: (Note: This blog post was originally written on March 24, 2022 when I was just beginning The Unquick Quill blog. It is just as relevant now as it was then as… Read More
