Wisdom and Grace: North to Alaska

When you read this, Rod and I won’t be around. Lord willing, we’ll be somewhere in the middle of Alaska. I had hoped that we could make our trip as soon as I retired. That would have been 2018. I had dreamed that shortly after my retirement from Northern Montana Health Care, we would get in the pickup and head north.

As things happen, something better came along … and her name is Janessa Renee Jorgenson. She is the much-anticipated and loved daughter of our daughter Beth and her husband Jeff. She arrived six weeks early and spent six weeks in the NIC unit in Great Falls. Timing just...