Cheyenne is busy tonight doing door answering/costume gushing/candy giving - duty. Somewhere along the line I lost my passion for the whole Halloween enterprise. The whole going door to door thing for kids just doesn't seem the same as it was when I was young (ummm, I mean young-er). Of course, I was a kid [...]
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A community embrace…
It has been a very sad week in the West Fargo School District. The death of 17 year old Eleni Wilson from a brain aneurysm permeated the district with the somber reminder that we never know how long we have with anyone. Even though we all intellectually understand that, the loss of anyone so young is difficult to [...]
Validation.
You won't ever catch me saying I am the perfect parent - I am not. To be a perfect parent I would have to be a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I can think of plenty of moments over my 30 years of parenting to-date that I could have done better with. Unfortunately, [...]
I am a life ruiner…
I am a life ruiner...or so I am told. I have heard this many times over the past couple of decades. Those would be the decades of my parenting children who have advanced into the "I believe I know what is best for my life" stage of development. It starts somewhere between the ages of [...]
The universe listens to me…
You may recall the old adage, "You get what you give." If you put out negativity, you tend to get it back. Conversely, if you put out positivity, you tend to get that back. If you put out acceptance, you tend to get back acceptance. If you put out craziness, get ready for the circus. The [...]
Who needs a ring when you can get a seven day forecast?
Dear Lord, let me be a beacon of joy and light...or, in the alternative, let me make it through the day without killing someone while in a hormone induced rage. Amen. Increasingly, I think the world needs mood forecasters that are able to provide an extended forecast for folks' moods. Similar to weather forecasters, these [...]
Bedside manner…
When you ask folks where one of their least favorite places to visit is, I am betting the dentist's office is fairly high on the list. No offense to dentists and dental offices everywhere, but I think it is safe to say that they are not ranking high on most folks' "fun things to do with an hour [...]
THE NEW FORTY 