A couple of weeks ago we hosted dinner guests from Canada and other regions of the U.S. Figuring it was a great opportunity to showcase a “typical Minnesota” menu, we decided on spinach salad with bacon dressing (courtesy of our piggy), oven-fried walleye, wild rice stuffing with wild mushrooms and grilled root vegetables, and topped [...]
Archive | May, 2010
What I Learned from Motherhood
Even those of us who think we’re ready to be mothers find that we are taken by surprise. The worriers among us have fretted during anticipation, practice, and still do from the empty nest. There is an abundance of things to learn from motherhood, the least of which is that the exalted condition can not [...]
Meeting Up in the Mill City
Over the weekend, Pete and I met up with Michigan folks, Jennifer and her husband, Karl. Jennifer and I were friends in high school, and we recently re-connected through Facebook. When we were in Michigan over Christmas, she and I had lunch one afternoon and it was as though time had never intervened. We spent [...]

Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life.