Do you know that saying...the one which starts with any number of things and ends with "when hell freezes over"? I have used it a few dozen times in my lifetime (give or take another few dozen times). This notion that hell freezing over would change the world so much that we would do something [...]
Author: Ms. C
76, 010
My first blog entry was written on day two of the new forty. I blogged daily all the remaining days of 2009 in the new forty for a total of 178 blogs. My blog views for that period came in at 76,010. This blog fulfilled a promise to myself (a resolution if you will) to [...]
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
The end of another year…where does the time go? I can’t quite recall how I time-warped from the eighties to now, but some days it seems like that was the last time my life was slow enough for me to recognize the passage of days as opposed to weeks and months. I wonder about the [...]
Igenuity minus logic equals…
I appreciate igenuity. As such, I got quite a kick out of the fellow who created the innovative beer can alarm (you can read his story at http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/264234/publisher_ID/1/). I found it to be a great re-purposing of empty beer cans and an excellent example of working with the resources you have to create a viable [...]
I don’t leak, but…
Today I need to buy a new water heater. My life is so sexy. It’s not that my current water heater has failed, but it is clear from the looks of it that it is on its way out. When I purchased my home in West Fargo almost four years ago the home inspector told [...]
In retrospect…
Have you ever had the experience wherein you looked back at an old photo or reflected on a memory and asked yourself, “What the heck was I thinking?” I have had that experience more times than I can count (and I can count beyond my fingers and toes unfortunately). Recently, I had a hair color [...]
Horrified. Grateful. Saddened.
Photo of Minard Hall partial collapse taken by Kate Ulmer on December 27, 2009 Three words: horrified, grateful, saddened. Horrified that Minard Hall had a partial collapse on the side of the building where excavation has been going on for the addition. Grateful that it happened when it did instead of at a time when [...]
THE NEW FORTY 