If you would have told me a few months ago that I would be watching a Bison game on ESPN online on a sunny Saturday of my own accord, I would have told you that you were loopy. I may have watched football on occasion in the past, but it has never been of my own accord. [...]
Author: Ms. C
Channel your inner Fred…
Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. I think in this day and age we view innovation mostly from a technology mindset. But innovation can materialize in many ways. It happens when we create what never was or change what was. Today I met an innovator named Fred. Fred is a faculty member at UND [...]
Building the capacity to craft solutions…
Tonight was Parent-Teacher Conference night for the 7th grade at STEM - except it wasn't. The 7th grade team decided to try a new approach. They decided that this year they would take key projects that they had taught across the curriculum and let the students explain and present upon those projects to their parents. They [...]
Who kares about the Kardashians?
I don't watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my own life; and, truth be told, I could care less about the Kardashians. There I said it. I do not really give a rat's fanny about what that family is up to. I am sooooo over the [...]
Can you hear me now?
I am miffed at Verizon today. Miffed because after years of being a loyal customer and payments over my time with them that I estimate have now eclipsed $30,000 (I have been with them for quite awhile) - they refuse to waive a contract termination fee. It seems when you have a family plan and [...]
Punked!!!
Cheyenne is busy tonight doing door answering/costume gushing/candy giving - duty. Somewhere along the line I lost my passion for the whole Halloween enterprise. The whole going door to door thing for kids just doesn't seem the same as it was when I was young (ummm, I mean young-er). Of course, I was a kid [...]
A community embrace…
It has been a very sad week in the West Fargo School District. The death of 17 year old Eleni Wilson from a brain aneurysm permeated the district with the somber reminder that we never know how long we have with anyone. Even though we all intellectually understand that, the loss of anyone so young is difficult to [...]
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