by Priscilla H Wilson | Dec 30, 2016 | Family, Photography, Writing
December 29 I celebrate my third evening of family dining with my second grandson and his family. We drive to downtown St. Paul and Jeffrey says, “We are going to Brasa, the city’s top-pick of kid-friendly restaurants.” We pull into the parking lot...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Dec 29, 2016 | Family, Writing
As we turn off the freeway into downtown St. Paul the magic of lights twinkle before our eyes. Ben pulls into the first spot of street parking across the street from the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and exclaims, “Rock Star parking.” Seeing the...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Dec 28, 2016 | Family, Travel, Writing
My unusual Christmas gift to myself this year involves three separate family dinner events. Three family households live in the snowy north of Minnesota: son Ben and his wife Tina, grandson Marcel, his wife Phaedra plus Zander and Izzy, and grandson Jeffrey, his wife...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Dec 16, 2016 | Aging, Birding, Death, Faith, Family, Photography, Travel, Writing
As an author, I experience that one of the hardest moments of working on a book is deciding the title. Maybe that comes easily for some folks, but I always struggle with that task. Several years before his death, Rodney Wilson began work on his life story. Many bits...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Nov 6, 2016 | Family, Writing
What a privilege to visit an exciting, fascinating school yesterday. Mary, my daughter, invited me to join her for Foundation (that’s the freshmen) students Parents’ Day. The morning began in Vanderslice Hall of the Kansas City Art Insitute with a...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Oct 27, 2016 | Aging, Family, Travel, Writing
Smokey Mountain fall foliage drenched our honeymoon with stunning colors sixty-four years ago. Yesterday, baffling images swirled around me as I celebrated this anniversary without my partner. Five years of dates before uttering those famous words, “I do”...
