In America, we have no idea what it was like to have lived through the Nazi occupation of Norway. I know many would like to forget that...

As we went through Mom’s personal effects after she passed away, we realized how much cooking was part of who she was. From working...

Selma Alida Haakinson Thoreson, second daughter and third child of Abel and Synneva Haakinson, was born on a farm near Radcliffe, Iowa,...

In September 2017, I wrote an article on Norway's famous stave churches, primarily built in the post-Viking age between the 10th and 14th...

This article focuses on one of my first cousins, the daughter of my mother's sister. Aunt Selma (Sally) and Uncle Bill Thoreson had two...

Christmas is coming, and unique gifts might be in people’s thoughts shortly. I thought it might be fun to identify some unique shopping...

Being the oldest son of a father and mother who were the youngest in the family and who married late in life meant that nearly all my...

My wife loves quilts! We have several! So when my mom brought out a double wedding ring quilt made by Grandma Emma (Nelson) Huseby for my...