I love Pinterest and I hate Pinterest. As I have said before, Pinterest is like crack for crafters - once you are sucked in you can't get out without an intervention. I do not know how many ideas are posted on Pinterest, but I sense it is in the hundreds of millions. I believe a [...]
Author: Ms. C
Ms. Mary Jane 2014
I am troubled by the most recent story on InForum about the missing 20-year-old NDSCS student from Wahpeton. The young man, Andrew Sadek, has now been missing for eight days and the headline today states that drug charges were filed against him. The story states that Andrew was charged Friday with two counts of felony [...]
Maybe she really does know it all…
Cheyenne received an academic letter from West Fargo School District last night. Silly me, I did not even realize there was such a thing. I thought lettering was all about sports. Cheyenne was nonplussed when she first heard she had earned a letter, but once she realized that she was the only kid in the [...]
Feel good shopping…
I learned something new about Amazon today from my friend Bill in Dickinson. Apparently, Amazon allows you to shop and give to charity at the same time. Who knew? The program is called AmazonSmile and it allows you to donate a portion ( 0.5% ) of certain purchases to one of a collection of charities. You [...]
A little boy’s best friend…
I was horrified to hear about the lost 3-year-old boy in Cooperstown, North Dakota. I imagine the family members were going out of their mind when they realized he had wandered off. Thank God it ended well. After almost six hours (in the wee hours of the morning) the little boy was found safe and [...]
Thanks Town & Country for the reminder…
I was scanning The Forum online today (InForum) and one of those advertisements that populate the online edition's page caught my eye. I must say, I am always a bit reticent to click on any of these advertisements based solely on curiosity as I know that some programming gizmo is capturing my every click and [...]
A better way…
I want to live in a world without email. I wonder if that world exists anywhere except in the backwoods of West Virginia or in a padded room somewhere. I wonder how emailing so quickly took over our lives as quickly as it did. A couple of decades ago email was not the number one [...]
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