My mother’s mother, Laura Ramlo, and her husband Bert, owned a grocery store in Upsala, Minnesota. Most of us called her Grandma Ramlo instead of Grandma Laura and some just called her Gram. They lived behind the store in small quarters. The bedroom didn’t even have doors. There were entrances from both the dining room […]
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Comments Off on November 28, 2025 In 1998 Dad moved from his high-rise apartment in downtown St. Paul to my house in Upsala. He had been a city fellow for most of his adult life, but he was raised in Upsala. I was working in Minneapolis as a sales manager with the Xerox agency Albinson and I was gone most of […]
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Comments Off on November 21, 2025 I was an army brat. Dad served in the Navy during the second world war and later he joined the Army. In 1950 he was a Sergeant in the 5th Army, stationed in Vienna, Austria. We lived on the second floor of a very nice apartment building at 41 Gregor Mendel Strasse. There were two […]
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Comments Off on November 14, 2025 Years ago, I met a woman whose father was a doctor in Cold Spring. His brother was also a doctor, (Doctor 2 for purposes of this story) and they would take turns covering for each other during vacations. One year Doctor 2 and his family drove to California in their “woody” station wagon. At the […]
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