Solid Rock Minnesota

It's been a little over a year since starting a weekly podcast. It was just me, my laptop, a cheap Amazon mic in the back room of the house where no one would know what I was doing.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

What's it like to wait in line with other Minnesotans? Take a journey with me to the DMV to get license tabs for the camper.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

THe CDC has reversed the masking of all of us. Now if you are fully vacinated you can go maskless inside and outside. What will that look like here in MInnesota? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Happy Mother's Day to all moms and to those who stand in the gap for mom's no longer with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

A tradition that has been alive longer than many of my relatives...cemetery clean up day. Join me, my relatives and about a ton of pine needles on the first Saturday of May. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Minnesota nice is a cultural stereotype applied to the behavior of people from Minnesota implying residents are unusually courteous, reserved, mild-mannered and passive-aggressive. The phrase also implies polite friendliness, an aversion to open confrontation, a tendency toward understatement, a disinclination to make a direct fuss or stand out, apparent emotional restraint, and self-deprecation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

What lies beneath the water and within our souls duing ice out? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Meet Mrs. Auntie Jo, the Matriarch of or family.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Baby Chicks have arrived. What do Easter, Passover and baby chicks have in common? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

The Mental Health of our teen-agers during the pandemic. A song and a request for DAILY prayer for all of our kids who may be going through hard times during Covid. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Just looked at the stats for Solid Rock Minnesota podcast. Thank you to all of our listeners from around the world! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

My thoughts on being alone rambling through the empty house for the next two weeks while the family downstairs is on vacation. What it is like to have 3 generations living under one roof. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

I have tried it several times and it never comes through like everyone else's who can make it work. They swear by it....I just swear at it. I give you...The Instantpot. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

Once again my friend shows me the value of a friendship half a century old. My visit with her after her extensive surgery for a broken leg. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message

I spent the morning driving down to the makeshift clinic to get my covid vaccine. This is my take on what happened, what I felt and what's next. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/susan-engstr-mcauliffe/message