on a dirt road

I was born and raised in northern rural Minnesota.  It's where I have lived, laughed, lost and loved all my life.  This blog is the beginning of my adventure and desire to write more.  I have kept a journal on and off all my life and have countless unfinished stories on floppy disks, composition notebooks, CD disks (what do you call those anyway??), long dead hard drives, flash drives...you get the point, I have wanted to be "a writer" all my life. 

A little history about me and my decision to focus on what I call my life, "a great country life."  I graduated from a small high school and attended community college followed by university as a commuter student which is not uncommon in my "neck of the woods."  I have known the man I married since I was in grade school; we have have built a home, two boys and a life together over the past 9 years on a tract of land down a dirt road near the town we grew up in.  

Growing up I did not aspire to live in my hometown all my life, but as like many people, my life plan sort of veered off path around 18.  Even though my life has not gone according to plan, it has turned out to be better.  What makes the living a rural life great and how has it shaped who I am is just a slice of what I hope to explore in this blog.