When I am tasked with writing things I do not particularly want to write, it is a painful process. Even if it is a short 1,000 word piece, it can take 10 times longer to write than a piece on something I am excited about. The extraction of every sentence is long and excruciating. I [...]
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A lesser of evils?
I like the slideshow presentations regularly found in cyberspace that give you short lists of tips. It is like an old school Reader's Digest version - a short, concise summary with pictures. That is my speed. The most recent slideshow I viewed was titled: Pests, Be Gone! 10 Natural Ways to Make Your Home Critter-Free. [...]
My Fertile inside source…
When I first moved to North Dakota I saw an article in The Forum with a headline that read, Fertile Man Dies. I was puzzled by that headline and I had to ask why it mattered that he was fertile. That is when I learned that in addition to being a biological state, Fertile is [...]
Ding-ding…my patience has expired.
Some days my ability to exercise patience is better than others. I sincerely try to be kind and gracious when things go wrong or folks make a mistake. But I have learned over time that my patience can quickly fall into a downward spiral after either a series of incidents occur in the same day [...]
What are you smoking?
Well, if you haven't heard, there has been quite a furor over a teapot on a billboard in Culver City, California. The billboard featured a simple photo of the Michael Graves Bells and Whistles Stainless Steel Tea Kettle sold by JC Penney. The complaints received so much attention that JC Penney removed the billboard. And [...]
If they stay, they pay.
Well, it seems the City of Moorhead is contemplating a new approach to addressing sandbagging costs in areas that are offered buyouts. The new proposed approach focuses on homeowners who don't take the buyouts. If a homeowner chooses not to take a buyout under the proposed new approach the city will make the homeowner pay [...]
What goes around, comes around.
Last year I had Mike bunny-proof the garden after the adorable little bunny babies that visited us daily had consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of plants by gnawing them down to mere stems. Of particular dismay was the power eating they conducted on my hollyhocks. Apparently, one can have bunnies or hollyhocks in one's [...]
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