8220;What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. back in August of 2006. She had just turned 7 the month before. He died later in the evening. Sad day for the kiddos. Tuesday, February 14, 2012.

Where a rural central-Minnesota woman shares its bumps, turns and vistas. Monday, February 10, 2014. On our morning walk,. Of dirt atop the drifted sea. And padded across the frozen tundra. He stuck his nose down into the hole,. Sniffed around, left his mark. Perhaps it was our neighborhood. Pocket gopher, Pri-CILL-a,. Who poked out her nose to see. How soon Spring will arrive? Links to this post.

Friday, January 30, 2015. 1 Robert McArthur, The Scot-Irish. I am pretty sure that the McArthurs were Presbyterians. They were Scotts and the Scotts prided themselves in being disciples of John Knox, the protestant preacher who blasted Mary Queen of Scots for her Catholic faith and whose brother and later her son followed into the Presbyterians church. The Scots were hardy peoples. They lived in a cold rugged land and were highly independent.

A Novel by Tom Tottis. Based on a true story, A Long Look Back is about human fortitude, chronicling the life of a Hungarian family, eventually reduced to just mother and son, and their struggle during the Nazism in the early 1940s. followed by tyrannical Communism, the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 and the aftermath. A fascinating and touching story. D Davies - Historian and Author. At the end I wished I could carry on reading more. Anthony Beevor, a World War II historian.