I attended the North Dakota Emergency Management Conference this past week out in Bismarck. It has been quite awhile since I have been able to attend this conference as typically I have a conflict with the conference dates and cannot attend. Fortunately, this year the stars aligned and I was able to attend. I have [...]
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October 11th
When I was young, October meant one thing to me - Halloween. As I got older, I came to also view October as the month of my mother's birthday. After my mother died in 2002, I came to view October as a month in which I memorialized my mother. In 2010, I came to know [...]
Unpacking decorum-based dress codes…
Many years ago a counselor at Kindred High School told me that she did not want the girls to have VBS. I had no idea what VBS was at the time. I could only imagine that it was some sort of new sexually transmitted disease that I had not yet heard of that was becoming [...]
Are you ready?
The longest day…
They say the longest day of 2014 was June 21st, but I know that cannot be right. I know the correct answer is September 26, 2014. I know this because I lived through the longest day of the year on the 26th and am just now barely recovering after a full weekend has passed. On [...]
What is happening here?
I found it very sad when Tommy Bearson's body was found. When I first heard he was missing I was sure that he would turn up at a friend's house and be startled at all the efforts that had gone into searching for him. But as time went on it became more and more concerning [...]
THE NEW FORTY 