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Swedish Summer Markets
Two words: Summer Market. Sweden has this tradition: street market! It happens all summer all over Sweden, but in our up-north neck of...
Linda Gruenberg
Aug 5, 20223 min read
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Broodmare Fever
It's spring, horse friends keep posting their pictures of newborn foals, and I have a case of broodmare fever. I have two beautiful mares...
Linda Gruenberg
Apr 25, 20222 min read
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Snow-Eating Snow
Today, March 25th, we’re getting snow-eating snow in Kardis, in the Arctic Circle, and it’s almost as exciting as the windy blue skies...
Linda Gruenberg
Mar 25, 20221 min read
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Where Did the Idea for Hummer Come From?
When I was a horse-crazy thirteen-year-old, an old man named Riley permanently lent me a beautiful black Arabian mare who he called Roxie...
Linda Gruenberg
Mar 2, 20223 min read
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Miracle Loves her Jingle Bell
Miracle loves her jingle bell. She listens to the music she makes as she trots, and it makes her happy. The bell gets her attention, and...
Linda Gruenberg
Jan 25, 20221 min read
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The Making of Good Luck Chestnut
Good Luck Chestnut started when my friend Kimmy challenged me to paint her a picture. Kimmy’s challenge went something like this: “Let’s...
Linda Gruenberg
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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Crisp bread and other Swedish Staples
Crisp bread is the most Scandinavian food I know—that and smoked salmon. But crisp bread takes the cake. For one thing, it’s always on...
Linda Gruenberg
Jun 30, 20213 min read
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The Lap (Land) of Luxury
Last night we took a sauna. Nothing unusual about that in the Arctic Circle, or even in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But it was an...
Linda Gruenberg
Jun 2, 20213 min read
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Of Mice and Painting
Painting is its own form of wanting to touch something. It’s wishing and longing and reaching out. I paint what I admire as a way to...
Linda Gruenberg
May 4, 20211 min read
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Reading Hummer - 30 years later
I just read my own book Hummer for the first time since it was published—in 1990—because I’m preparing to release it as a second edition...
Linda Gruenberg
Apr 5, 20213 min read
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Barns, Life and Magic Memories
Article first appeared in Chronicle of the Horse February 5th, 1988 In Moddersville, where I grew up, visitors rarely began their visits...
Linda Gruenberg
Mar 29, 20215 min read
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The Great Double Entendre
The greatest double entendre I know, the most delicious play on words--even God’s first pun--is "the Living Word." In the one phrase,...
Linda Gruenberg
Mar 5, 20213 min read
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Lucky Socks
I was thinking about dressing for success, this morning, versus dressing for luck, when I pulled on the lucky orange wool socks my sister...
Linda Gruenberg
Feb 11, 20212 min read
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Letters to and from a dead man
On a Luminary for Relay for Life: Dear Dirk, No template can help me write a letter to the dead, so I have turned that thing off. Dirk?...
Linda Gruenberg
Feb 8, 20212 min read
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Book Review: Karen Irland, Along the Way
Along the Way took me by surprise and I read it at once as if going for a moonlight ride in the snow—ending up refreshed afterwards....
Linda Gruenberg
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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The Lapland of Abundance
Today I was shoveling snow—the light kind that flies if you sneeze on it—thinking that Lapland Sweden is the land of abundance....
Linda Gruenberg
Feb 5, 20212 min read
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