Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.
Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she’s a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. She’s received grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State’s Art board. She was awarded the 2011 Lake Region Arts Council McKnight Fellowship and she’s read “War and Peace” three times.