Chuck and I went for our first snowmobile ride of the year on Friday, January 22. With the weather forecast predicting rain, we wanted to get at least one ride in before rain came and melted away what little snow we had. Fortunately that was not the case—the rain fell, but it was followed by snow. A dusting near Lake […]

Psychologist Abraham Maslow reminds us that there is a hierarchy of human needs. Our most basic needs are those of the body, such as food, water or shelter, and the need to feel safe and secure. If we focus only on meeting these basic needs, we fail to take advantage of the opportunity to move on to higher levels of […]

Fourteen miles up the Caribou Trail is Tait Lake. The roads around the lake, Cap’s Trail and Billie’s Trail, were named for my aunt and uncle Mathilde “Billie” Petersen and Martin “Cap” Petersen. They once owned the land upon which today’s Tait Lake residents have built their homes. The original Tait Lake Lodge, which Cap and Billie built, was their […]

Yes, it’s true…. I was a Candy Striper. (That’s striper with one “p” not two.) For those of you who do not know the difference between a candy striper and a candy stripper let me tell you, one is a non-paid volunteer at a nursing home or hospital and the other is usually well paid, but mostly in ones, fives […]