ROXANE SALONEN
PEACE GARDEN MAMA writing wednesdays: it all started here on peace garden mama!
Well, I have to thank you all for your comments on the post I wrote a while ago on Bieber Fever. That post turned into the inspiration for my most recent Forum column. So, some of this might ring fa...
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Parenting Perspectives: ‘Roughing it’ looks different for every family
“How about a dessert menu?” the kind waitress asked.
The seven of us were just finishing our dinner at the Douglas Inn Lodge at Itasca State Park.
By Roxane B. Salonen , June 17, 2013
Living Faith: Science leads us straight to reality of God 
Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist, cosmologist and one of today’s foremost atheists, says we can learn everything from science and nobody needs God.
By Roxane B. Salonen , May 10, 2013
Parenting Perspectives: New drivers in the house humble mom
“Just wait until they start driving.” I’ve been hearing forever.
But we took more time than most to get started. When our oldest realized we weren’t trading in our two minivans for a brand-new red Porsche, his interest in the whole driving thing waned.
By Roxane B. Salonen , May 06, 2013
Living Faith: Marv taught craft, how to live well
In the fall of 1986, I arrived from Montana in the new and foreign place of Moorhead, Minn., my sights set on becoming a television news reporter.
By Roxane B. Salonen , May 03, 2013
Living faith: Forgotten grass seeds tell of tenacity
My friend Katie welcomes springtime by placing grass seeds and soil in clay pots, then delighting as the seeds grow and turn into plush circles of green stems.
By Roxane B. Salonen , April 26, 2013
Judaism on the prairie: Jews in Fargo-Moorhead adapt to unique challenges
FARGO - At religious school as a child, Frances Weintraub was asked to draw her family tree. Finishing, she sat back and regarded the creation, noting the lopsided branches.
By Roxane B. Salonen , April 19, 2013
Living faith: Kept cozy by father’s flannel shirt
Though he died Jan. 11, my father managed to keep me warm and cozy through this never-ending North Dakota winter.
By Roxane B. Salonen , April 19, 2013
Living Faith: Sharing values isn’t the same as indoctrination
For parents with beliefs (which I assume is every single one of them), there comes a point when someone you don’t know may accuse you of “indoctrinating” your children with those beliefs.
By Roxane B. Salonen , April 12, 2013
Living Faith: What a little red suitcase revealed
I must be seeing things, I thought at first.
As I pulled into our driveway one frigid evening a few weeks ago, I couldn’t miss the red object nestled among the snow walls encasing our front steps.
A suitcase, it turned out, precariously placed on the edge of the concrete entrance.
By Roxane B. Salonen , April 05, 2013
Living Faith: Easter offers a green sprig of hope to all
I’m one of the blessed ones, I know, though I don’t say this smugly or lightly. The plain truth is that I grew up with an eternal-optimist mother, a person who always, no matter how dark the circumstances, pulled out from her arsenal of love an upbeat quote or line and put it before me as a green sprig of hope.
By Roxane B. Salonen, Special to The Forum , March 29, 2013
Parenting Perspectives: Letting go of ‘having it all’
Most know now how Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently recalled employees working from home back to the office, setting off yet another storm of debates regarding working parents.
By Roxane B. Salonen , March 25, 2013
Living Faith: Seeing our new pope for first time
The death of Elvis Presley in 1977, the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986, the destruction of the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001 – moments in history frozen forever in the minds of my generation.
Significant loss, a world changed.
And now to my list of cemented spans of time I’ve added another: 3-13-13.
By Roxane B. Salonen , March 22, 2013
Living Faith: Old Irish priest made a huge impact on life
As I stood at the cusp between high school and college, Dad offered me one last piece of advice. “Rock, when you get there look for the Newman Center.”
By Roxane B. Salonen , March 15, 2013
Living Faith: ‘Les Miserables’ not so miserable after all
I spent the summer of my senior year of college in Princeton, N.J., as a live-in nanny for three young girls.
My work days largely were made up of grocery runs, playing board games and teaching the kiddos my wide repertoire of camp songs.
By Roxane B. Salonen, SheSays contributor , March 08, 2013
Living faith: Making sense of the pope’s departure
By now, everyone knows the pope has left the building, for good.
His red shoes have been retired, replaced with brown; his papal ring has been destroyed; the Swiss guards have relinquished their watch over him.
By Roxane B. Salonen , March 01, 2013
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