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Meet the Author: Dorothea Stratton
Pretty cool, huh? My mom, Dorothea Lorraine Hess Stratton is officially an author. A creative writing class inoculated her with the writing bug in the 1990s, and she began writing stories about growing up during the Great Depression on a farm near Pipestone,...
Midwest-Style, Shanghai-Style Noodle Soup
Soup season has arrived in our corner of the world, so on Monday I made the most of the chilly by trying out a recipe discovered in the United Airlines inflight magazine last summer. Some of the ingredients in the original recipe were not available at our midwestern...
Top Ten Comments When Road Trippin’ with the Rellies
The weekend included ten hours road trippin' with the rellies to a family funeral. Plenty of time for conversation among people who are never at a loss for words. Here are the top ten comments made by or in response to one member of our contingent as the miles rolled...
Blessed Be Your Name
I've never been one of those people with a direct line to God's voice. I spend most of the time begging him to speak in a without-a-doubt-God-is-speaking voice and waiting for it to happen. It rarely does. But this weekend, God spoke loud and clear through, of all...
My Aunt Lois
The call came last week. Lois Benson, Mom's oldest sister, had died. She'd been failing for several months, so the news wasn't unexpected. But it was unwanted by those of us left behind. But I suspect, as do others who loved her, that Lois was not sad to go. Not after...
Thanksgiving Leftover Triage: Turkey Hash
The past week and a half have been chock full of grandma duty and other family fun. So much fun, blogging is on the back burner. Therefore, for the next few days Gravel Road will reprise popular posts from the past. Today's post first appeared on October 3,, 2012....