My daughter Sarah and her longtime partner Dusty are pregnant (well, technically Sarah is pregnant - but you get the point). We found out last week that she is having a boy. Sarah and Dusty long ago settled on names - Olivia Helene for a girl and Lennon Daniel for a boy - so Lennon [...]
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New underwear?
When folks engage in affairs (emotional, physical, or both) they enter a mental and emotional state wherein their ability to maintain clarity and sensibility about the realities of life fade away. It is a state that produces a fog very similar to new love, but that is complicated by the covert nature of the relationship - the [...]
Kurt Vonnegut and me
Can you remember high school like it was yesterday even though it was clearly not yesterday? All the drama and the hijinks...all the anticipation and the angst...all the promise of an unfettered future without parents always nagging you and ruining your life...can you recall it? I can. The time between then and now has passed [...]
Allow me to be blunt…
Please do allow me to be blunt...the Blunt Amendment is an infringement on freedom and it has no place in an enlightened society. If you are unfamiliar with the Blunt Amendment, the shorthand summary is it is a proposed amendment to the requirement within the 2010 health reform act that requires employers to provide coverage of preventative [...]
A caterpillar spotting…
I have to once again give props (a.k.a. my proper respect) to the folks who live at the house on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sheyenne Street in West Fargo. The last time I wrote about them it was in regard to their joyous snowman. Today as I was driving home I noted a [...]
Armchair quarterbacking…
Dictionary.com defines an armchair quarterback as "a person who offers advice or an opinion on something in which they have no expertise or involvement." There is an awful lot of armchair quarterbacking today as it applies to various weather forecasts for the Midwest's February 28/29 storm. In particular, a lot of folks in the Fargo-Moorhead area [...]
I want to know.
I love personalized license plates. I especially like the ones that so creatively use the sound of letters or numbers to build their plate - plates like N2 COWS or GR8T or 4SAKEN. My dad often talks about his favorite personalized plate of all time - CME2PEE. It belonged to a urologist. I love my [...]
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