When I first saw the commercial for Poo-Pourri on the internet I thought it was a spoof. The product claims to contain all the odor from smelly bathroom episodes in order to help you save face (and eyebrows and nose hairs in particularly toxic events). There was no way you would have been able to [...]
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Just how dangerous is tackle football?
I saw a fascinating piece on Frontline this weekend called League of Denial:The NFL's Concussion Crisis. The piece covers brain injuries in the NFL and what appears to be a purposeful effort by the NFL to dismiss alarming evidence that football players are sustaining long term injuries from hard hits and concussions. I must say, [...]
My favorite color is plaid.
I don't like funerals. But I imagine that is true for most folks. Even the most lovely of funerals - the ones that can successfully focus your attention on a celebration of life - still carry the underlying reality of the loss of a loved one. Losing folks we love hurts - plain and simple. [...]
Remembering #316…
Three years ago today a five alarm fire destroyed the Galleria Apartments in Fargo. My sons lived in that apartment building in apartment 316. They lost their pets and everything they owned. In total, the fire displaced about 150 residents. It was a truly horrific event to watch. Three years later I still remember it [...]
Have you got your ducks in a row?
Tomorrow is the annual Emergency Preparedness Expo at NDSU that is sponsored by the Department of Emergency Management and the NDSU Emergency Management Student Association. The Expo will be in the Plains Room which is upstairs in the Memorial Union on NDSU's campus and runs from 10 AM to 3 PM. It is a free [...]
A beautiful mosaic – Janna Charrier Ronsberg.
I believe that life well-lived is a process of giving pieces of ourselves to others and carrying pieces of them with us. These pieces add color, design, and dimension to the mosaic that is our life. These pieces can come from the smallest of interactions to the biggest of love affairs - they are the [...]
Well-done Grand Forks!
There is good news coming out of Grand Forks today. Last evening the Grand Forks City Council led the State of North Dakota into the 21st Century when it voted to ban housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. That is pretty big news for our state. Well, let me be one of [...]
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