As I do a little fall cleaning, organizing, and decluttering, I’m amazed at how many nooks and crannies hold books in our house. Each kid has their...

There's a sad kind of goodbye that happens on my deck every year, and I never quite get used to it. The pots that have been full and spilling over with color since May —...

It’s that time of year when I am knee deep in everything, from cleaning out sections of the garden to making space in my pantry and freezers for...

At the Bergman house, fall officially arrives with the Minnesota Vikings home opener. That happened this past Sunday, and the Vikings won. Game day usually means it's my...

One of my dearest friends is visiting this week from Florida, and I have been fretting about the weather.I had hoped Minnesota would behave itself and give her a few...

We are a month into our school year and our fourth year of homeschooling. It was not a strong academic month, but four weeks of adjusting from the...

Twenty-five years later, I can still see the bulky television in the corner of my office.It was Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001, and we were on deadline to produce our...

I have kind of hit that lull in the garden season, where I’ve put in so many hours of care and while the harvest is still coming in, the garden...

It's good to be writing again, even though — if I'm honest — I don't really love the actual sitting-down-and-writing part of it. I never have. Every column starts the same...

We as consumers are being trapped into subscriptions and endless rentals, sometimes for features on products we already purchased. And the control...

Life used to feel simpler.Not simple, exactly, but simpler in the sense that fewer things demanded our attention before we could even get out the...

I’m in complete denial that summer is soon to be over, but as the garden harvest starts rolling in, I know that to be entirely true. We are...

A few weeks ago, I spent an entire afternoon on my knees in the flower bed, waging war against quack grass. If you've never pulled it, count...

Now that the heat of the summer has settled down a bit, we are loving any chance we get to do a hot breakfast, sometimes even breakfast for lunch...

We all carry a strange kind of ledger in our heads — hundreds, maybe thousands of people we've known just enough to nod to. The mail carrier who retired. The waitress who...