A + E helping me rediscover that while I’m not a cat person, I’ll always be a barn kitty-lover at heart.
Growing up on a farm, animals primarily served a utilitarian role. The fact that people let them live in their homes has always been hard for me to understand. Now, as a person who married into cats, I’ve had to tap into the devout love for kitties I had as a child. Slowly, the layers of ice are falling away from my heart.
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The view north from Palisade Head
As an evangelist for the southeastern, driftless region of Minnesota, along with the western prairies, I have a confession: I'd never been past Two Harbors. I've seen the plunging shoreline photos, had friends rave about Grand Marais, but just nodded politely, assuming THEY were the ones missing out. So, to back-up my claims that SE is where it's really at, I knew I had to give the other regions a fair shake. About a year in advance, we booked the best pack-in site at Cascade River State Park and spent a long weekend literally camped on the shore of Lake Superior and poking around Grand Marais.
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