If you ever comment on the blogs on Area Voices you will note that you have to duplicate the series of letters and symbols in the little confirmation box before the system will allow you to post. These are random words or parts of words typically, but sometimes I think the computer that comes up [...]
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Keystrokes that show I care…
I am a mom, therefore I lecture. Unfortunately, the lecturing part now has expanded from my own offspring to others within my reach. My only excuse is that I lecture because I worry and care. If I did not worry and care I would not waste my breath, or keystrokes in this instance. And the [...]
Word.
I am dated by my vocabulary. All my favorites – fab, peachy, awesome, cool, hip, the bomb, diggin’ it, right on, etc. are things you hear in old TV shows and movies. I was thinking that it might be time to update my vocabulary, but then I heard one of the local radio stations use [...]
Mental note – stop rocking out at stop lights.
Awkward…that is the only word for some moments in your life. I have two quick examples this morning that both occurred in this calendar week (which should tell me that awkward moments are not an anomaly in my life – hmmmm, something to reflect upon). First, the very day that I blogged about the fact [...]
True crime confessions…
Today is donut day (well actually it is the 2nd Annual Emergency Preparedness Expo at NDSU) but the fact that there will be donuts is what looms in my mind presently. I made special efforts to use my small coffee cup today so that I had to make more trips up and down the stairs. [...]
I am “if-ted”…
Shhh! I have a secret. I think I can dance. When I see the show, So You Think You Can Dance, I always think yes…yes, I do think I can dance. Now, to be clear - I don’t leap through the air or have any formal training in tap or ballet. I am not a [...]
The gift of joy and laughter is a mighty one…
I love my friend Leretta whose office is down the hall from mine. Every day she makes me smile and often puts me in stitches. The hallway my office is in is filled with quite an eclectic cast of characters, but Leretta is the one I see daily and the one who daily brings sunlight [...]
THE NEW FORTY 