I typically tell students at the beginning of each semester about my blog. I feel I am obliged to inform them that parts of my life end up on my blog and that for the next semester they will be part of my life - hence, their class (a.k.a. my class) could be discussed in [...]
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There’s a new social butterfly in town…
I fully recognized something today...I realized that I am now one of those "older" people who find unending delight in having conversations with children. It's been coming for awhile. I can recall the first steps down this road. They came after Cheyenne started school. At first is was just babies and toddlers that I was drawn [...]
The 3rd Annual STEM Cosmopolitan Soiree
Regular readers of my blog have often heard me sing the praises of the STEM Center - Cheyenne's school in the West Fargo School District and the only magnet school in the state. Well, you may not have actually "heard" me - more accurately, you "read" me singing the praises of the amazing work the staff and [...]
Leavenworth – quite the getaway.
Groupon Getaways is a travel service that puts together travel deals in collaboration with Expedia. Sometimes their deals are really great and can come in at as much as 60% off. I received an email from Groupon today. The subject line said: San Diego | Las Vegas | Chicago | Cancun | Leavenworth Leavenworth?? Since [...]
Mist opportunity…
As I walked into Sunmart today and approached the produce aisle the misters starting misting. I stopped in my tracks, but I noticed there was a woman in close proximity to the misters who didn't even flinch when the misters went off. She just stood there in what appeared to be a daze. So I watched [...]
Chutzpah!
Chutzpah! There is no other way to characterize what a woman in Superior, Wisconsin did today. She brought traffic on her street to a grinding halt as folks stopped to take photos "of a pile of boxes and items in a yard with signs that read 'X-HUSBAND SALE' and 'FREE'" and to see the "once-green GMC Yukon SUV [...]
There really should be confetti…
Sometimes Cheyenne is a really funny kid. It is difficult to imagine when I hear her prattle on and on about the types of things 13 year olds find endlessly amusing that she was quite shy when she was young. Back then she didn't talk much in public and she would close her eyes whenever she was around [...]
THE NEW FORTY 