HIKE SIXTY-ONE
Barn Bluff Red Wing hike with FTD friends While I was staying at the Anderson Center, three people from my frontotemporal dementia (FTD) support group in Minneapolis traveled to Red Wing to hike with me. It was really fun to …
Tag: FTD
NANCY’S JOURNEY
A month away I was sad when I returned home from my wonderful month of October in Red Wing, Minn. Fitting with my mood, the sky has been grey for the last two days. I was awarded the Capstone Fellowship …
Tagged with: Anderson Cente, Capstone Fellowship for Children’s Literature, depressing, FTD, granddaughters, IRS, Mike G, novelist, Red Wing
HIKES FIFTY-EIGHT, FIFTY-NINE AND SIXTY
The summer of Nancy My family kept asking, “You’re going up north, again?” I replied, “Yes, because I’ve decided this is The Summer of Nancy!” My instincts sent me up north a lot this summer of 2015. I needed time …
HIKE FIFTY-SIX
Visiting the past This hike was a very short one — only a half mile. But it was an important one for me. In mid-August, I was invited up to long-time friends Nancy and Fred’s cabin in Wisconsin. Nancy is …
Tagged with: dock, FTD, Little Gilmore Lake, little log cabin, Matthews Lake, memories, Minong, New Year’s Eve, Wisconsin
HIKE FIFTY-FIVE
Planning a Life I decided to hike to Magnetic Rock on the Gunflint Trail in June. Although I thought I knew the way, I got a bit lost driving there. Not good planning on my part. My backpack only held …
Tagged with: 32 page, compass, FTD, Gunflint Lodge, Gunflint Trail, Magnetic Rock, money problems, North Country, picture book
BARRY’S JOURNEY – Half on and Half off….
Contemplating a memoir Today I found Barry lying sideways, half on and half off his bed at the care center. He looked really uncomfortable, poor guy. To make matters worse, he was dressed in big, baggy old pants that I …
HIKE FIFTY-THREE
Mount Josephine on the Grand Portage Reservation In June, as I drove up to Mount Josephine in Grand Portage, Minn., I did something I have not done before. I took along our old iPod because I finally found the charger …
