Blog | Linda Gruenberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Swedish Summer Markets

Broodmare Fever

Snow-Eating Snow

Where Did the Idea for Hummer Come From?

Miracle Loves her Jingle Bell

The Making of Good Luck Chestnut

Crisp bread and other Swedish Staples

The Lap (Land) of Luxury

Of Mice and Painting

Reading Hummer - 30 years later

Barns, Life and Magic Memories

The Great Double Entendre

Lucky Socks

Letters to and from a dead man

Book Review: Karen Irland, Along the Way

The Lapland of Abundance

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Subscribe to my newsletter • Bi-weekly (or more likely, random) emails with personal stories & artwork. Be charmed.
Be entertained. Topics? Sweden, snow, horses, midnight sun, horses, northern lights, sleigh riding,
books, and--you guessed it--horses.