Linda Teigland Clark

I grew up in a small farming community south of Mankato, Minnesota which is located on the Minnesota River (originally called St Peter’s River) and the Blue Earth River.  After receiving my Bachelor of Science degree from Mankato State University, I set my feet on a wonderful and, yes, sometimes difficult, path to the person that I am today.

While on this journey I have worn many hats: native Minnesotan, California transplant, high school teacher, junior college instructor, Deputy Sheriff, wife, mother, and now that of my Mother Lode Gold Rush living-history persona, Hardluck Lin.

Along the way and sometimes, in spite of myself, I have learned one truth.  It is the individual’s attitude toward life that drives his or her choices and it is one’s choices that will shape his or her life, not the circumstances of one’s birth.   For the most part, everyone is gifted with the ability to choose and the freedom to exercise that choice.  To fail to choose is to choose to fail.  

So, choose well, my reader friend, but most of all, realize that the choice and its consequences are yours.  And remember:  It was the North wind that made the Vikings!