Our book excerpt today picks up shortly after our last week’s story ended. If you’ve been following along you know that Kaja recently became a widow and was left penniless by her husband. She is forced to leave the farm she has known as her home for five years and find a new place to […]
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Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Sin
[wpvideo etm8KaEU] Welcome to another installment of Rubies – Escaping the Curse – The Beginning. Our series begins as a young Norwegian girl leaves her home seeking work in America. Kaja’s father cursed her on his deathbed for her disobedience when she married a vagabond musician. Abandoned by her husband and without a means […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Burden
Many of us are faced with difficult family situations during our lifetime. It is how we deal with these problems and the decisions we make that can have a lasting impact on our lives and that of our children. This was particularly true for Kaja Ericsen when she arrived in America to make a new […]
Ghosts at the Historic Lighthouse in Two Harbors, Minnesota?
Fall is my favorite season of the year and it’s particularly beautiful in Minnesota. Just taking a drive to Stillwater, Alexandria or Duluth gives you hours of splendid scenery and enjoyable memories. I particularly love the scenic North Shore Drive in the fall of the year. The historic city of Two Harbors, Minnesota, is home […]
Another Senseless Murder
Why do bad things happen to good people? The question is asked again and again but simply floats into oblivion without an answer. This past week we watched in horror as another senseless shooting took the lives of two innocent people. Their young lives were snuffed out without warning in a place in which they […]
What is the true meaning of addiction?
The dictionary defines addiction as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma”. According to Psychology Today addiction is “a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or […]
What Really is Domestic Violence?
In our society today we are plagued with this question over and over. Almost daily we hear of women, children and even men at times being abused by a spouse, partner or family member. But we must then ask ourselves the question: what really constitutes domestic abuse? Some will explain it as physical violence against […]