When I hear of products that produce "a warming sensation" - I can't help but smirk a bit. I like that phrase and as a woman in the new forty I can appreciate the phrase's potential for alternate use...particularly here in the Midwest. Midwesterners are a fairly polite lot - they are not inclined to effusively [...]
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The Black Hole…
The Free Dictionary defines black hole as follows: a great void; an abyss. Well my friends, I have been to the abyss and I have emerged alive (barely). The abyss, formerly known as the garage, has been a compounding problem for the entirety of our time in West Fargo. On occasion, the space has actually been [...]
My new favorite person…
My new favorite person is J. R. Martinez. You may think I am fickle when you hear that I just became aware of J.R. late yesterday evening and have already elevated him to the level of my new favorite person. Not to worry...once you hear about him you too may designate him as your new favorite person. [...]
New news…
Today I offer three quick blog updates that I thought important to share. I don't get to do updates often, but these three warrant a revisit. Re: In Nya's shoes... Cheyenne was as all a-buzz about the Long Walk to Water activity today. She LOVED the experience. KVLY ran a nice piece on the activity on [...]
In Nya’s shoes…
Tomorrow Cheyenne and the rest of the seventh grade class from STEM will walk to a pond in West Fargo to fill gallon-sized water jugs which they will carry back to their school. The water jug activity is designed to give the kids a better understanding of what life is like for those who live in remote areas of [...]
Who you gonna’ call?
Alabama is a lush and lovely state - I enjoyed my short visit there. It isn't a state I could ever live in though as my hair and the weather had irreconcilable differences. Thankfully, even though the weather caused me to suffer aesthetically, it was physically quite bearable. The FEMA course went well and it [...]
The death roll…
I have to keep this brief tonight. I'll hope to post photos and more detailed news of my Alabama trip tomorrow. Tonight I need to go to bed as early as possible because at dinner tonight my friend and colleague Dave McEntire started talking about sharks and shark attacks (which are unpleasant, but tolerable as [...]
THE NEW FORTY 