When I give presentations to classes or community groups about emergency management and how individuals can prepare for emergencies and disasters, I always feel like a bit of a Debbie Downer. I am, after all, cautioning them to prepare for something that may be a fairly frightening event that could cause harm to them, their [...]
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Second chances…
Well, Sarah, Dusty, Lennon, Lucy, and Marley are in their new house. I dispatched my moving crew there on Friday (my sons Noah and Cory and boyfriend Mike) and I took the really tough job of watching my cute little grandbaby Lennon. I know, I played that just right. 😉 I also had Lennon here [...]
Die winter…die!
The word from the National Weather Service is that a wallop is coming our way. This looks like one that the whole state will be able to "enjoy" - well, yippee ki yay. Just what all us North Dakota folks wanted - more winter. All this extra snow will just make flood season that much [...]
IT WAS TENSE.
I like clever humor. The kind of humor that it may take folks a moment to appreciate...the kind of humor that is brilliant in its simplicity. This is the kind of humor you typically find on specialty t-shirts. Humor that you'll see someone wearing in passing and think - hmmmm, now that's clever. I am [...]
More than a house…
A house, no matter how large or majestic, is really just a shell. It is what you put into it that makes a home. And it is what you take out of it that makes it hard to ever see it again as just a house. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said, "Where we love is [...]
Gender and climate change…
Some days I wonder if I am alone if my oddity. I seem to be humored by some things that I don't think others even give a passing thought. This would explain why I often crack myself up only to see others shaking their heads with a look of confusion or pity on their faces. [...]
Getting reacquainted…
Tonight while I was driving home it hit me that the landscape looked different. At one point I wondered if I had absentmindedly turned down the wrong street. There was a moment when things did not look familiar, but then it hit me - the snow has melted. This is the first time for many [...]
THE NEW FORTY 