To be determined - by Amelia Roessler

Dreaming of my Victorian connections

I completed a lifelong dream this week: It was amazing. Everyone knows the big house on North State Street near the hospital that an older lady used to live in before it got sold a couple of years ago. It’s a beautiful old house. Three stories of brick and windows with a sizable lawn sloping...

Who ever heard of being cold in July?

Everyone talks about their Fourth of July traditions, so I thought I’d hop on the bandwagon. Each year, my family and I like to travel to the wonderful land of the north, to my grandparents’ cabin in Merrifield, Minnesota. Their lake association has a tradition of putting together a boat parade...

Doing good even when faced with adversity

This Tuesday I donated at the blood drive at Grace Lutheran Church and honestly, I had a great time. This was my sixth time giving blood; it was the first time I’ve had nothing go wrong. Nothing usually goes super wrong, but apparently my veins are very difficult to find. Last time I donated,...

Amelia's summer of self improvement

Welcome to the Summer of Amelia. The title is a reference to Seinfield, but that’s not what’s important here. I am talking about my journey of self improvement! Last week I mentioned that I may or may not be a workaholic. I know that, you know that - it’s old news. I decided to start on a...

Facts of life for a newspaper writer

Well, I find myself once again in my summer dilemma - working too much. Now Eli, our editor and publisher (“God” if you ask some people from the New Richland Star office), will probably read this and get concerned that he’s assigning me too much. No, Eli, you are not. It is entirely my fault that...

Cherishing shared memories together

Well, it’s been a week since Memorial Day, and my family decided to take a trip to the Cities this past weekend to do our annual cemetery run. Each year around this time, my sister, mom, grandmother and I drive up to the Cities, Stillwater, and Bayport to visit the cemeteries of some of our...

Where have manners gone?

Well, I have finally started working at the paper again! No longer am I just writing columns from some far-away places telling about my adventures and what is happening in my life–which isn’t much just now. As some of you may know, along with working at the paper, I tend bar at a bar in...

How well can artificial intelligence write?

Good morning, afternoon, evening, middle of night. Whenever you choose to read the paper, I commend you. This column I would like to talk about AI (artificial intelligence) and Chat GPT (generative pre-trained transformer). I don’t know how many of you have snapchat, but there has recently...

Trip to Rome brings special blessing

For all of you wondering, yes I did end up seeing the pope; it was a story to tell for a lifetime. Even though it was quite cold, we stayed for an hour and a half so that we could be blessed. So yeah, not to brag, but I’ve been blessed by the pope. Anyway, it’s reached a point in the academic...

Musings while I wait to see the Pope

Bonjour! Italy has been exciting and interesting. As I write this, I am in line to see the pope. Crazy right? This is the third day my friends and have been in Rome; we got up before 6 this morning so we could get a good spot in line to enter Vatican City. We wanted to see the basilica, but...