Can you remember high school like it was yesterday even though it was clearly not yesterday? All the drama and the hijinks...all the anticipation and the angst...all the promise of an unfettered future without parents always nagging you and ruining your life...can you recall it? I can. The time between then and now has passed [...]
Allow me to be blunt…
Please do allow me to be blunt...the Blunt Amendment is an infringement on freedom and it has no place in an enlightened society. If you are unfamiliar with the Blunt Amendment, the shorthand summary is it is a proposed amendment to the requirement within the 2010 health reform act that requires employers to provide coverage of preventative [...]
A caterpillar spotting…
I have to once again give props (a.k.a. my proper respect) to the folks who live at the house on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sheyenne Street in West Fargo. The last time I wrote about them it was in regard to their joyous snowman. Today as I was driving home I noted a [...]
Armchair quarterbacking…
Dictionary.com defines an armchair quarterback as "a person who offers advice or an opinion on something in which they have no expertise or involvement." There is an awful lot of armchair quarterbacking today as it applies to various weather forecasts for the Midwest's February 28/29 storm. In particular, a lot of folks in the Fargo-Moorhead area [...]
I want to know.
I love personalized license plates. I especially like the ones that so creatively use the sound of letters or numbers to build their plate - plates like N2 COWS or GR8T or 4SAKEN. My dad often talks about his favorite personalized plate of all time - CME2PEE. It belonged to a urologist. I love my [...]
Someone is clearly psychic…
Last year when the 2011-2012 school calendar for West Fargo School District was created a mid-winter break was scheduled for this week. I must admit that when I first saw the timing of the week - two weeks before NDSU's spring break - I wished they had consulted with me. When it was all said and done, I [...]
Oh, the weather outside is frightful…
As I look out the window at blustery conditions, the emergency management professional in me is reminded that the relative absence of snow events this winter may have made us all a bit more complacent about winter preparedness. As such, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you of five easy steps you can take to [...]
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