The word from the National Weather Service is that a wallop is coming our way. This looks like one that the whole state will be able to "enjoy" - well, yippee ki yay. Just what all us North Dakota folks wanted - more winter. All this extra snow will just make flood season that much [...]
IT WAS TENSE.
I like clever humor. The kind of humor that it may take folks a moment to appreciate...the kind of humor that is brilliant in its simplicity. This is the kind of humor you typically find on specialty t-shirts. Humor that you'll see someone wearing in passing and think - hmmmm, now that's clever. I am [...]
More than a house…
A house, no matter how large or majestic, is really just a shell. It is what you put into it that makes a home. And it is what you take out of it that makes it hard to ever see it again as just a house. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. said, "Where we love is [...]
Gender and climate change…
Some days I wonder if I am alone if my oddity. I seem to be humored by some things that I don't think others even give a passing thought. This would explain why I often crack myself up only to see others shaking their heads with a look of confusion or pity on their faces. [...]
Getting reacquainted…
Tonight while I was driving home it hit me that the landscape looked different. At one point I wondered if I had absentmindedly turned down the wrong street. There was a moment when things did not look familiar, but then it hit me - the snow has melted. This is the first time for many [...]
Courage defined.
Today I want to share with you something that was shared on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Facebook Page. I re-posted it on Veteran Suicides - America's Shame Facebook Page, but I thought I should share it with all of you as well. I think we are too often divorced from the realities of [...]
If You Build a Girl a Bookcase
There is a popular children's book titled, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, that I am sure most parents and grandparents are familiar with. The premise of the book that the cookie is only the beginning of a seemingly endless request list. The original book by Laura Numeroff has spawned a whole series of similar [...]
THE NEW FORTY 