Okay – who is the retiree with the 120 candles?

I was on the North Dakota Employees' Retirement System webpage the other day and I observed something I found curious.  The site has a pull down menu for year of birth.  Nothing curious there - tons of websites have that.  The curiosity was not in the menu's existence but in the range of birth years.  [...]

Added value…

Two of my former students are getting married today - Sarah and Tyler.  I will attend their reception this evening where I am sure I will also see a bevy of other EM alumni that remain close to them.  Sarah and Tyler are not the first pairing to come out of our program, there have [...]

Tomorrow, go purple.

Color matters in the lives of human beings.  Color affects our moods.   We surround ourselves with colors that make us feel certain ways - calm, happy, energized, peaceful. We identify colors that we think look the best on us - to best accentuate our eyes or our skin color, or to deemphasize body parts (black remains my [...]

Is being a Kroll’s lady in my future?

Mike, Cheyenne and I had dinner at Krolls tonight.  I was seriously craving some knoephla soup and Krolls is the knoephla soup place.  It has been awhile since I have been to Krolls.  I typically only get there maybe twice a year.  I have to be in the knoephla zone and for some reason that [...]