I was scheduled to speak to members of the Fargo West Rotary today about emergency management. I find it ironic - along the lines of Alanis Morissette's song Ironic - that I am not speaking because of a blizzard that has caused widespread closures and activity cancellations in the area. I think Mother Nature delights [...]
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START SHRIEKING!
Some days I feel as if I am in the middle of a crowded room shrieking insanely but no one hears me. No one looks at me. No one stops what they are doing. It is as if I am invisible. I don't understand this. Are we not hard-wired to be responsive to our own? [...]
Apparently, the days of gym socks are over…
It doesn't take much to amuse me most days. Simple things amuse simple minds. Some of the things I find amusing I think would be generally amusing to most folks, but others may be amusing based on my contorted little brain. I recognize that in this way I am odder than some (or perhaps, most?). [...]
40 days and 40 nights
It all started where so many things start with me these days - in the flotsam and jetsam that mingle together randomly in my premenopausal brain. It is a very dangerous situation for someone like me to even become more fragmented and random - there is virtually no telling what the mixture will create from [...]
Inside Out
Denny has spoken…
If there is one clear-cut sign that flood season is upon us, it is this - the River Whisperer has offered his first prediction. Yes, that is correct - Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker has surveyed the landscape and his crest prediction (as of yesterday) is 32 feet. The River Whisperer has spoken and all is [...]
Try it with or without the adverb…
Oprah emails me regularly. She keeps me updated on what is going on with her; shares with me what books she thinks I should read; lets me know helpful information about how to stay in good health; keeps me abreast of the top financial thoughts; and, shares warm, fuzzy stuff that helps me be a [...]
THE NEW FORTY 