Mike, Cheyenne, and I went to the opening night of Schoolhouse last night. Schoolhouse by Leanna Brodie was performed at The Stage at Island Park by the Tin Roof Theatre Company. The play was an interesting mix of history, social commentary, humor, and tragedy. Schoolhouse is the type of play that lingers with you. The [...]
Even Mother Teresa has her limits…
No driver likes a backseat driver regardless of where they are seated in the vehicle. Backseat drivers are the ruin of a peaceful driving experience. They have a way of turning even the shortest trips into an exercise in anger management. The worst type of back seat driver - bar none - is the teenage [...]
Well now, that is concerning.
The lovely Amy Dalrymple, The Forum reporter in the oil patch and formerly a local education beat reporter (which is how I came to know her), recently penned an article about oil well blowouts. The article hit InForum late in the day on Labor Day - which I thought was entirely appropriate given that it [...]
Coward.
Ariel Castro killed himself yesterday. He hung himself in his cell at the prison in Ohio where he was being held. Castro was the man who kidnapped and imprisoned three young women between 2002 and 2004 and kept them captive until May of this year. But for one of the young women's escape efforts all [...]
Life-saving innovation – cars that communicate with each other.
The power of technology is amazing, but even more amazing are the brains that dream up ways to harness technology for the good of mankind. Every single day you can find news of such advancement, but some days the news is such that it affects us all. Such is the case with the news out [...]
Calling all party animals!
Last week I had the privilege to speak to one of the Fargo Rotary clubs about emergency preparedness. I say one of the Fargo Rotary clubs as there are - as I understand it - a number of them. The one I spoke to meets on Mondays for lunch at the Holiday Inn and does [...]
Professional courtesy or corruption?
When I lived in Southern California I became aware of the notion of professional courtesy for the friends and family of law enforcement. You just kept that officer's card next to your driver's license and miraculously you received warnings instead of tickets - or so I was told by my law enforcement friends and their [...]
THE NEW FORTY 