Dear Dan, Today is Valentine's Day. You're headed to Fargo today for tests and scans to be done this afternoon, and then your ch...

DAN AND GRACIE I've been asked by several people for an update on Dan, so here goes: He's had two rounds of chemotherapy so far. ...

I have been absent from this blog again - and actually it's been longer than you think. My December blogs were pre-written, and it turne...

ALMOND CAKE BAKER  Most of my posts this December have been about Norwegian holiday foods. I first learned about some of these Scandinavia...

"WOODLAND GUARDIANS -  SAGE AND MAIDEN" Solstice/Yule cards by Wendy Andrew This is my fifth year of writing a Yule p...

It's Christmas time, so it must be lefse time! As any "good" Norwegian-American will tell you, lefse (LEF-suh) is to us as th...

CHRISTMAS TREE 1917 In my previous post I  featured several Carl Larsson products - a collectible cookie tin and a cake tray. A lot of L...

CARL LARSSON SWEDISH PEPPARKAKOR TIN 2011 "MARTHA WINSLOW AS A LITTLE GIRL" Gingersnaps are among the seven traditional Norwegi...