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All Soul’s Day on November 2 is also known as Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or The Day of the Dead.
It’s Halloween, with snow falling in Stearns County. Almost All Soul’s Day. Time for a ghost story. A true story, which I retell more than half a century later.
We all have our ways when it comes to Halloween candy.
You’d be crazy to cross Mr Smith’s garden. But one night I had to.
All families have secrets. As people get older or pass away, the secrets come to light. Like Grandma Lena’s.
It’s the town that welcomes you with a smile, and a cinnamon roll at Charlie’s Cafe.
We creatures of the earth shouldn’t eat each other’s lips. That’s my firm view.
Lake Osakis wore a black veil of birdlife – a coating of coots.
Some things change, some stay the same.
What a clever quirky Minnesotan Prince was. Lest we forget.