If you missed all the clamor over the recent North Dakota Tourism advertisement that featured two young men looking appreciatively at three young ladies through the big front windows of the Ho Do bar in Fargo - now is your chance to get up to speed on it. The advertisement featured the following script, “Drinks, dinner, decisions. ARRIVE A [...]
A first person account of animal cruelty…
Today, I woke up to a dog barking outside. The time was just a few minutes shy of 4:30 AM. Mike was already on the phone with the West Fargo Police Department when I got up. Mike called the police because the neighbor behind us (who lives on Sheyenne Court in West Fargo) had put out his [...]
The etiquette of full frontal hugging…
In case you are unaware, Saturday, January 21, 2012 is National Hugging Day. I want to share this with you so you know come Saturday when you are approached by random huggers that you don't need to file a police report. Those hugs will be qualified as acts of goodwill. Of course there is an expectation [...]
Taking Betty White’s name in vain…
In an effort to build strong relationships and to reinforce lessons on leadership in my Disaster Response class, I do a series of "tag" sessions where each student answers a simple question that tells the class something about who they are, how they see themself or what they believe. After a student answers a question they call [...]
Crack for crafters…
When it comes to being crafty - skilled, I am not. But I must confess, I so want to be gifted in that way. I go through phases periodically where I invest in some crafty effort, but then I ultimately abandon those efforts when I remember that, try as I may, I remain woefully unskilled. Lately, [...]
“FLOTUS”
I received an email the other day from Barack. The subject line read, "FLOTUS" - which caused me to say, "What the hell is that?" I am, after all, in a field that is fairly acronym savvy so I consider myself to be quite sharp as it applies to de-acronyming things, but FLOTUS??!! WTF? Now, [...]
I don’t like this news.
I was really disheartened to hear that the missing Montana high school teacher, Sherry Arnold, was declared dead. I don't like that kind of news. This is North Dakota and while I know we are not crime-free here, we have decidely less violent crimes than most other places. I like that about this place. I don't like [...]
THE NEW FORTY 