Monthly Archives: September 2014

Selma Lagerlof’s Home and the Swedish “Tom Thumb”

I visited Selma Lagerlof’s rural home in central Sweden–an old manor house called Marbacka, close to the town of Sunne and the city of Karlstad–in May, 2008.  I had been thrilled to discover, when planning this trip with my Swedish-American … Continue reading

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Making the Grade

None of our family now remembers the actual grades that my adult son Daniel earned in fourth grade, but we all remember his early student activism.  When the school principal decided that lunchroom noise was getting out of hand, she … Continue reading

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