Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. A Seat at the Table There is a picnic table less than fifty feet from my restaurant. It’s free. It sits along the Dakota Rail Trail, waiting for cyclists, walkers, runners, families, and anyone who needs a place to pause for a moment. And yet every summer, I find […]
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Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Motherhood Such a simple word for something so enormous. Soft, powerful, painful, nurturing, exhausting, beautiful, heartbreaking, selfless, instinctual, complicated. For some women, motherhood arrives naturally. For others, it arrives differently. And for some, it never arrives in the way they once imagined. When I was younger, I never […]
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Work Work has never been something I chose. It’s something that chose me early… and never let go. I grew up in South Minneapolis, in a home where we always felt like we had enough—but I knew, even as a kid, that it was tight. There were coupons […]
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Grandma Bess Garner, Iowa. A small farm town that felt like a different world from the rhythm of south Minneapolis. Out there, the silence wasn’t quiet—it was alive. As a child, the sounds of the farm at night unsettled me… the wind, the creaks, the unknown. But then […]
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Home Home. Such a simple word… yet it has been everything and anything to me. Growing up, home was comfort. Safety. Family. Security. Then life happened. As a teenager, home became a place to pass through— a stop between sports, school, jobs, and […]
A Seat at the Table Journal Entry #5
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. A Seat at the Table There is a picnic table less than fifty feet from my restaurant. It’s free. It sits along the Dakota Rail Trail, waiting for cyclists, walkers, runners, families, and anyone who needs a place to pause for a moment. And yet every summer, I find […]
On Motherhood Journal Entry #4
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Motherhood Such a simple word for something so enormous. Soft, powerful, painful, nurturing, exhausting, beautiful, heartbreaking, selfless, instinctual, complicated. For some women, motherhood arrives naturally. For others, it arrives differently. And for some, it never arrives in the way they once imagined. When I was younger, I never […]
On Work Journal Entry #3
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Work Work has never been something I chose. It’s something that chose me early… and never let go. I grew up in South Minneapolis, in a home where we always felt like we had enough—but I knew, even as a kid, that it was tight. There were coupons […]
On Grandma Bess Journal Entry #2
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Grandma Bess Garner, Iowa. A small farm town that felt like a different world from the rhythm of south Minneapolis. Out there, the silence wasn’t quiet—it was alive. As a child, the sounds of the farm at night unsettled me… the wind, the creaks, the unknown. But then […]
On Home Journal Entry #1
Food for Thought. Wine for Wonder. On Home Home. Such a simple word… yet it has been everything and anything to me. Growing up, home was comfort. Safety. Family. Security. Then life happened. As a teenager, home became a place to pass through— a stop between sports, school, jobs, and […]