Travel is great fun when done in moderation. I am always fairly optimistic about business travel when it is a few months away and is a singular trip surrounded on either side of it by long periods at home. Of course that is not how it tends to end up. One lone trip sandwiched between [...]
My holiday gift to you…
If you shop online and you are not searching for coupons on retailmenot.com I can bet you are spending more money than you need to for the items you are buying. RetaiMeNot is a site that captures savings codes for an incredible number of sites. When I shop online I always check on RetailMeNot to see if [...]
Here’s a thought – let’s go dollar for dollar.
Every single day for the past couple of weeks I have received numerous big color glossy political advertisements in the mail. Yesterday, I received eight from an assortment of folks promoting both republicans and democrats running in North Dakota-based elections. I estimate that over the past two weeks I have received more than 50 of these [...]
What my mother left with me…
When we lose people in our lives it is interesting the things we hold on to. We may hold on to old photos, personal belongings, or mementos. Things that matter much more to us now than they ever did when the person was alive. It is because they are the things we have left - the [...]
Amen Mary Maxwell!
My friend Katherine Tweed sent me a great video that I want to share with the readers of my blog. It is a video of Mary Maxwell, a lovely woman who was asked to deliver the invocation at a Home Instead Senior Care event. She starts off her prayer session in a traditional way, but [...]
Okay – who is the retiree with the 120 candles?
I was on the North Dakota Employees' Retirement System webpage the other day and I observed something I found curious. The site has a pull down menu for year of birth. Nothing curious there - tons of websites have that. The curiosity was not in the menu's existence but in the range of birth years. [...]
And there it is – the inner kinky coming out.
If you read The Forum online - InForum - you know that at the top of the page is a search tool and under the search tool is a hot list for top searches so you can go directly to whatever topical material is most searched at the moment. Here is what I saw on the top [...]
THE NEW FORTY 