Monthly Archives: July 2016
Last week’s visit to the Big Stone County Fair was nostalgic for me since Clinton was my hometown. This week I attended the Grant County Fair and that carried with it some nostalgia too. In 1980 my teaching job at the Wheaton High School was cut to .8 of its original position. Fortunately that cut never came to pass for unknown to me Herman High School, 17 miles down the road, was functioning without a biology teacher for that same year. So…..
Sixty years ago attending the Big Stone County Fair was an exciting event for me. Being a 4-H kid meant I would spend Thursday entering my exhibits in the 4-H building. Hopefully the paint was dry on the bird house I entered for my conservation project. The safety poster had probably been painstakingly completed the night before. No, I wasn’t a procrastinator. I was a perfectionist and slow besides! 🙂 Thursday night was long and sleep was difficult as one anticipated the…..
I started writing seriously in 1980 and have slowly progressed(and I emphasize slowly)! Here it is 2016 and if someone would ask me, “How well known are you as a writer?” How would I respond? Well my hometown of Clinton, MN is one county south of where I presently live and I did teach school at Herman High School one county east so I guess I am well known in a three county area. But for twenty years I did travel…..
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