Okay...prepare yourself as I am going to out myself - I am a Pollyanna. Having disclosed the above I have a prediction to make - you should be able to pretty much set your clocks on this - I will be bawling every Monday from 8-9 PM from here forward as long as ABC continues [...]
Month: November 2009
“Gee, I don’t follow baseball.”
Michael Oher and his parents When I travel, folks often ask me if I am a Vikings fan. My favorite response is, “Gee, I don’t follow baseball.” No need to write me a nasty note telling me that the Vikings don’t play baseball – of course I know they are a hockey team. Cheyenne and [...]
“Stubborn Pounds”…
Well, Women’s Health has done it again. They are the same folks who previously sent me an email telling me that I could become “perfect in just eight weeks”. Today, their focus is on dropping “stubborn pounds”...hmmm…that requires some reflection. To be honest I am naïve as it applies to pounds. I did not realize [...]
Very bright and shiny…
I was purposeful today in waiting to post to my blog as I knew I would be meeting and having lunch today with Rebecca. Rebecca is Marc's girlfriend (Marc is one of our grad students at NDSU). I have been hearing about Rebecca for months now from Marc and could not wait to finally meet [...]
Let’s talk regalia fashion…
I ordered my academic regalia the other day. I had a bit of trepidation when the nice gal at the bookstore said I would have to be measured. Those cloth tape measures give me pause. I thought that I should perhaps wait a few weeks before I was measured so that I could make an [...]
The reason for waking up and going to bed…
Here is the best insight I can supply as to why I get out of bed every day and why I go to bed exhausted every night...a girl named Cheyenne. Here is what I am thinking...too bad she doesn't want to be a comedic actress. I think she already has a head start on hamming [...]
Operation Christmas Child – thank you for the gift!
Yesterday, The Forum ran an article about Operation Christmas Child - http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/259840/publisher_ID/1/. This was the first I had heard about this project that delivers shoe boxes of small gifts to less fortunate children all around the world. I was aware of at least a dozen other organizations focused on a similar mission, but not this [...]
THE NEW FORTY 