About Me

Profile Public relations and communications professional. Passionate about sports, photography, travel, friends and family. Minnesota native, looking for where life will take me next.

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." --aaron rose

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Goals for 2010

  1. Stop biting my nails.
  2. Read more.
  3. Take more pictures.
  4. Commit to exercise.
  5. Be a tourist in MSP.
  6. Build and grow relationships.

Love is All We Need

I ran across this video this afternoon and wanted to share it:

Organized by Starbucks, the video highlights our ONE global community and the power of music.

From Starbucks:
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. [...]

2010 - What to do, what to do

Warning: The beginning of this post is somewhat jumbled and could be frustrating to the reader. The independent thoughts are eventually completed, I promise. Just bear with me.

I am a list-maker by nature. Whether at work, school or home, I find great satisfaction in making lists and subsequently crossing off items upon completion.

Separate, but related: [...]

Home, and unplugged, for the Holidays

This afternoon I officially begin my holiday vacation, which consists of driving to Omaha until Saturday then returning to the Cities and continuing on to Green Bay for my first-ever Packer game at Lambeau field (cue music).

While my time at home will be relatively low-key, I am determined to maintain a healthy distance from online [...]

Maintaining Traditions

With the holidays quickly approaching, the cooking and baking of traditional Scandinavian foods begins – for my family at least. This weekend my grandma, aunt and cousin will be making lefse and it got me thinking: Are we losing family-based traditions in today’s retail world?

Traditions have been continued in our family for generations. Lefse, lutefisk [...]