We all knew this day was coming- but it was still really hard this afternoon when I saw the sign with my own eyes - Store Closing- Everything Must Go- Nothing Held Back. Sadly, the sign was not in the front window of a store I don’t care about, like Spencer Gifts or General Nutrition
This weekend I am in Dubuque, providing music and worship leadership for something called the Grace Institute - and after that I’m heading up north for a retreat of my own with Kathy, her dad, Polly, Mark, and Lorelai. We will be away from home, away from work, and away from most of our obligations.
Once the Weston Noble Alumni Choir concert had been sung, it was time to really relax and enjoy an event that I fondly remember from childhood but have experienced only sporadically since then. . . Decorah’s Nordic Fest. The brochure for this year’s fest said it was the 45th Nordic Fest, which means that the
