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Especially grateful this Mother’s Day
Me with my mom in her assisted living room in 2014. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo by Randy Helbling. THERE WAS A THURSDAY about two months ago when fear gripped my heart. Our mother, my middle...
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Pop goes the love
I’M SENTIMENTAL. I appreciate receiving greeting cards and handwritten notes and letters. There’s something about pen put to paper that conveys thoughts, feelings, emotions better than a text or an...
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Jell-O memories
A WEEK BEFORE MOTHER’S DAY, my sister-in-law showed up with a bowl of Jell-O at her granddaughter’s third birthday party. But this wasn’t just any Jell-O. This was Seven Layer Jell-O Salad, multi...
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A mother’s gift to her writer daughter
The only photo I have of my mom holding me. My dad is holding my oldest brother. I SOMETIMES WONDER how my mom did it? How did she raise six kids and manage a household without the modern...
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Mother’s Day 2020 from southern Minnesota
Me with my mom during a January visit. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo January 2020 by Randy Helbling. I STOOD BEFORE THE CARD RACK at the dollar store, pink cotton print mask covering my face,...
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Gratitude for Mother’s Day photos & the love of a rural Minnesota care center...
I printed this message inside a handmade Mother’s Day card for my mom back in elementary school. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo. SUNDAY PROVED A MOTHER’S DAY unlike any other due to COVID-19. A...
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Delighting in a Sunday afternoon drive in rural Minnesota
We met an occasional vehicle on our country drive southeast of Faribault, Minnesota. I ABSOLUTELY, UNDENIABLY needed this. To drive into the countryside on a Sunday afternoon. To get away. To view...
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Reflections on motherhood
My mom saved everything, including this Mother’s Day card I made for her in elementary school. I cut a flower from a seed catalog to create the front of this card. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo....
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Remembering Mom on my first Mother’s Day without her
One of the last photos I took of my mom. (Minnesota Prairie Roots copyrighted file photo July 2021) IN RECENT YEARS, as my mom’s health declined, I considered how I would feel when she was gone, when...
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The Weekly Phone Call
My sweet mom, featured on the Parkview Facebook page, Mother’s Day 2020. (Photo credit: Parkview Senior Living) IN EVERYTHING I WRITE, truth rests. In creative nonfiction, more than any other genre,...
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