When I travel I rarely adjust my watch to the new time zone. I just try and adjust my thinking. Mostly I travel East and need only adjust by an hour forward - this is accomplished easily enough - +1...I have it mastered. But darn it if it isn't daylight savings time this weekend - the [...]
TGISB!
A good portion of the working world has weekends off. This is undoubtedly the reason the acronym TGIF! (Thank God It's Friday!) has become so widely used. Sometimes after a long week one just has to acknowledge that absent the week ending they would likely not be able to endure another minute of whatever made [...]
Off the grid…
I did the unthinkable today - I left my phone at home. It wasn't purposeful - it was evidence of a lack of thinking (is that un-thinking?). I realized that I had likely left it when I was about halfway to work and I had a mental flash of it still sitting on the kitchen [...]
The Jenna Act
I do believe the cures for the ills of the world can be found in the conversations conducted in hair salons, barber shops and nail salons. They function like think tanks where the patrons and the stylists offer input into the subject at hand and emerge with a collective result that far exceeds the individual contributions. Such was [...]
This isn’t the kind of mud I want to wrestle with…
As we enter a period of warmer days when the snow begins its speedy melt, I am reminded of the peril of muddy, slushy puddles on the NDSU campus. When you couple the puddles with pre-occupied drivers who are in a hurry and multi-tasking (be it by singing, texting, talking on the phone or waving to friends) a hazard condition [...]
It’s a boy – thank God!
My daughter Sarah and her longtime partner Dusty are pregnant (well, technically Sarah is pregnant - but you get the point). We found out last week that she is having a boy. Sarah and Dusty long ago settled on names - Olivia Helene for a girl and Lennon Daniel for a boy - so Lennon [...]
New underwear?
When folks engage in affairs (emotional, physical, or both) they enter a mental and emotional state wherein their ability to maintain clarity and sensibility about the realities of life fade away. It is a state that produces a fog very similar to new love, but that is complicated by the covert nature of the relationship - the [...]
THE NEW FORTY 