The Chocolate Set tells stories only hinted at by geneology charts and lists of ancestors. It is fiction, but it is true fiction. I call it heritage retrieval.
Erik Axel Norrling will be the last of his family to enjoy the comfort of landed gentry status in rural 19th Century Sweden. Problems with his own workers reflect the labor unrest and terrible living conditions of the lower classes. Early on, Erik Axel discovers the powerful lure that emigration to America holds out to them. He also discovers the thrill and addiction of racing horses and betting on the outcome.
As his passion...

The book describes the forces, history, and events that drive Klara to find the strength to leave family, comfortable traditions, homeland, and even her own language to emigrate to a new land.

This book is a continuation of The Chocolate Set. It continues Klara's journey from Sweden to America by showing some of her experiences on her way to Canton, South Dakota and beyond. Her marriage and adventures with homesteading on the Perkins County prairie make up the remainder of the novel. The book is illustrated with line drawings by the author.

This is a group of short stories set in the northern Black Hills towns of Spearfish and Belle Fourche. The time is the late 1940's through the middle 1950's. The stories deal with storms, war, life, and death from a child's growing experience.

A collection of one minute stories in the tradition of some very old Chinese stories. The stories span the years from the homesteading days in Western South Dakota to the present day. The stories are partly story and partly real life happenings. In other words they are TRUth.