In the Creative Spirit. A poetry prompt for January.
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[Garden]
Wendy Froistad bought her Maple Grove home 34 years ago. For the first 15 years, she focused on her family and their day-to-day activities. The family’s yard was well-kept but unexceptional, a standard landscape in a nice suburban neighborhood.
What causes a young person to excel? What internal messages do they feed themself? How do they balance all the activities they are asked to juggle? What goes through their mind?
Maple Grove resident Brett Bernard has spent more than 20 years as a teacher of 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. So he knows what works during this critical age when it comes to instilling math skills into the minds of young learners.
[Garden]
Born without a green thumb? You are fashionably in luck, because the latest trend in green things is one of the easiest plants to grow (and to give): cactus. It’s not a plant we’re accustomed to seeing in Minnesota, so curiosity abounds around its ease, visual detail and interesting textures.
[People]
For the Hitchcock family, it is a tradition to enter the various sweepstakes and giveaways at the Minnesota State Fair. When Mike Hitchcock received the call saying that his family actually won a barn, he didn’t believe it.
[Homes]
Rhonda Engle will tell you that her business selling reclaimed barn wood is life-giving. The showroom at Rustic Revival Barnwood is filled with weathered white, tawny and red planks rescued from farmlands across Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
[Homes]
If HGTV has the biggest presence on your television, and Chip and Joanna Gaines are your inspiration, then a DIY home makeover may be in your future.
[People]
Many of us can get caught up in a tense episode of CSI or NCIS, but crime scenes are a reality of life. What the crime dramas don’t show is what happens after the medical examiners pack up and move out.
[Homes]
Summer is a popular season for home improvement projects, and while it’s easy to find yourself undergoing costly time-consuming projects, sometimes just changing fundamental aspects of a room can make a huge difference not only in the look and feel of a room but also its terms of function.
[People]
“Some tell me to take it easy—I say you might as well dig your grave then!” That’s the ethos that keeps Jonathan “Jonny” Hansen, 42, of Rogers motivated to keep up his grueling training schedule.
