Where it all began
I was about four or five years old, living in an old two-story farmhouse in Minnesota. I remember the huge snow banks, playing in the snow, catching snakes, and ice skating on a makeshift pond the fire department made by spraying a field and letting it freeze overnight.
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What's the earliest place you remember feeling at home?
I remember living in Minnesota as a kid, maybe four to five years old.
Minnesota has such a distinct feeling to it — cold winters, wide open spaces.
The huge snow banks, playing in the snow, fishing with my dad, living in an old 2 story farm house, catching snakes, ice skating on a makeshift pond that the fire department created by spraying a field and letting it freeze over night.
What a vivid picture — that makeshift skating pond is such a wonderful detail, t…
The time I learned to ride a bike. My dad pushed me on the bike down a hill and he yelled pedal. When I crashed, he had me get up after crying and do it again.
That moment is so vivid — your dad's voice calling out "pedal," the rush of the…
My dad was in the Army. He was a very strong man with a work ethic that wouldn’t quit.
It sounds like he led by example — that moment on the bike feels very much like…
You bet it did. Him being in the Army shaped every fiber of my being.