Thanksgiving is a time when we focus intently on gratitude. Surrounded by family, friends, food, and laughter it is much easier to be grateful for what we have. Gratitude fills our hearts and carries us happily through the holiday season. It is a lens that challenges us to appreciate all we have in our life [...]
I saw a shirt the other day that read, "You may not have lost all your marbles, but there is definitely a hole in the bag." My goodness, I resemble that remark. These days my marble bag definitely has a hole. Indeed, I am not sure my marble bag was ever full. That is not to say [...]
I am just coming off a week-long engagement with the flu. I did not think it was the flu at the outset. I thought it was my round three of that crappy hacking cough cold stuff going around. I have coughed so vigorously with that malady in its repeated occurrences since mid-December that it should count as [...]
In the conversation in her head she remarks, "I am fascinated by the new year phenomenon. Why do people place so much emphasis on the power of, and potential for, change at the outset of the new calendar year?" Albeit, she is quickly distracted by a burning urge to ready her brand new journal to [...]
I visited Fargo Cass Public Health a couple of weeks ago at their relatively new location (since August last year) on 25th Street South. Locals may recall that Public Health spent many years downtown before the move to the former Sunmart location off 13th Avenue. I really like their new location, it is bright and cheery and very easy [...]
A 17 year old teenager in the West Fargo School District committed suicide on Wednesday. West Fargo students were informed of the suicide yesterday. My daughter Cheyenne told me about it when she came home from school and after my initial shock my first question was, "Why?" Cheyenne did not know the answer to this [...]
March 24, 2015, I had a fairly unique experience at the dollar store in town. Perhaps the most unique part was the location, because I do not believe the dollar store experiences such a thing with any regularity. I figure I caused a bit of psychological scarring for dollar store manager Travis that day. For [...]
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