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It’s been difficult to write these days. I started this space a few months ago with the intention of sharing stories about northern Minnesota, connecting with nature, and the ways that building a slow, intentional life can help us find our path. I had ideas for content all laid
On Mother’s Day 2025, during an unusually dry, hot, and windy few days in a drought-ridden spring in northern Minnesota, an unattended campfire sparked a fast-moving and highly destructive wildfire. The next day, while the heat and winds continued, a second fire started just miles away from that one
Subscribe now “There are baby loons on the lake!” I texted my mom one early summer morning. I had just moved to northern Minnesota the previous December, and spent my first months weathering one of the most brutal winters the area had seen in a while. I had been equal