Friday Up North

I am sitting in a coffee shop this morning in a town hours away from my family. I have my headphones in, and a really, really good cup of coffee next to me. I was able, fortunately, to be free to travel on the spur of the moment and visit my grandmother who broke her hip last month. My head is swimming from what I have heard in the last 20 hours.

She turned 89 last week--what a way to spend a birthday, huh? She can't walk right now and is in some pretty bad pain. Her mind is quite

On Upbringing

If anyone has ever watched the show on A&E called Intervention, they would know that in each episode, at about 12 minutes in, there is a feature of the person's childhood. I have always noticed that, to a person, they use their upbringing as the core of their addictions.

My Story

I wrote this for a project some friends have at St. Cloud State University. It felt good to get it down; it describes, in summary form, some high and low points from my life. Enjoy!

I was born at an early age in California