Minnesota Prairie Roots

Southwestern Minnesota prairie

After 18 months of blogging for Minnesota Moments magazine, my personal blog debuts.

You won’t see any changes here in writing style and topics.

I will continue to write from my heart—about everyday life, about places I visit, things I do, observations I make about the world around me.

My writing reflects my down-to-earth personality and my appreciation for the simple things in life.

I’m the woman who hangs clothes on a clothesline, relishes a good book, shops garage sales,  savors the tart tang of rhubarb crisp, breathes in the intoxicating scent of freshly-cut alfalfa and appreciates Minnesota, the place I call home.

So, in choosing my blog name, I turned to my roots, which reach deep into the southwestern Minnesota prairie. I haven’t lived there for decades, but this place of big skies, wide open spaces and unceasing wind shaped the person I became and the writer who evolved.

Today I write from southeastern Minnesota, my work still influenced by my native prairie. There, in stark surroundings, I learned to not just hear, but listen to, the land, for it truly does speak.

It made me a better writer.

So, welcome to my blog, Minnesota Prairie Roots.

Return often.

Share your thoughts.

But mostly, learn to appreciate your world.  All of it.