My lack of tolerance for intolerance of the LGBT community found its roots in a conversation I had over 35 years ago. That conversation was the timid coming out of my neighbor and friend Mary Stremple in her driveway before she headed out with her family for their annual family vacation on Catalina Island. Mary [...]
Author: Ms. C
My magnetic personality…
While at the Mall of America last weekend I visited the magnet store. While there a series of magnets caught my eye. If I had to classify them I would call them Leave It To Beaver meets Roseanne (or for the younger folks out there who do not understand my television references - the hopelessly unrealistic [...]
Vanity as a driver of safety?
I was a pitiful sight to behold this morning when I took Cheyenne to school. No makeup, wet hair clipped up haphazardly, a pasty semi-green complexion and an outfit that looked like the room was dark when I got dressed- oh yes, I was quite the beauty. Thankfully, I had big sunglasses at the ready and [...]
IDOBYKS
Every day on our way to and from school Cheyenne and I pass Keith Schoon's vehicle and yard. His vehicle sports the license plate IDOBYKS and his yard is filled with hundreds of bicycles. You may have read about Mr. Schoon recently in The Forum. The article focused on the fact that he was in violation of [...]
Duck-Palooza 2011!!!
Well it is that time again - time for NDSU's 4th Annual Preparedness Expo! The Expo is sponsored by the Emergency Management Student Association and is a fab event that is free and open to the public. It is held in the Memorial Union and will run 10 AM - 4 PM today and features speakers, booths, [...]
Can “sex” and “love making” be the same?
DISCLAIMER: I AM WEARING A BONNET AND THERE IS A BEE IN IT. Yesterday my blog addressed my concern that calling for abstinence in teens until marriage was not a realistic message. One of the comments to that blog which spoke to the value in abstinence until marriage used a term that I struggle with [...]
Abstinence until marriage…is that a realistic message?
Let me say at the outset that I am neither advocating for or condoning teen sex. What I am doing (so we are clear at the outset) is questioning how realistic it is to promote abstinence until marriage to teens. I have been pondering this question since I picked up the Survival Guide for the Parents [...]
THE NEW FORTY 