Groupon Getaways is a travel service that puts together travel deals in collaboration with Expedia. Sometimes their deals are really great and can come in at as much as 60% off. I received an email from Groupon today. The subject line said: San Diego | Las Vegas | Chicago | Cancun | Leavenworth Leavenworth?? Since [...]
Tag: Humor
Mist opportunity…
As I walked into Sunmart today and approached the produce aisle the misters starting misting. I stopped in my tracks, but I noticed there was a woman in close proximity to the misters who didn't even flinch when the misters went off. She just stood there in what appeared to be a daze. So I watched [...]
Chutzpah!
Chutzpah! There is no other way to characterize what a woman in Superior, Wisconsin did today. She brought traffic on her street to a grinding halt as folks stopped to take photos "of a pile of boxes and items in a yard with signs that read 'X-HUSBAND SALE' and 'FREE'" and to see the "once-green GMC Yukon SUV [...]
There really should be confetti…
Sometimes Cheyenne is a really funny kid. It is difficult to imagine when I hear her prattle on and on about the types of things 13 year olds find endlessly amusing that she was quite shy when she was young. Back then she didn't talk much in public and she would close her eyes whenever she was around [...]
Personality +
Every class has its own personality and its own set of personalities. Over the course of a semester the personality comes into its own and by the end of the semester it is typically ripe. Today was the last day of my regular classes this semester. On the last day of my classes the students do a hot wash [...]
The 5 stages of morning…
If you have ever read anything on serious illness, loss or grief you have likely heard of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Kübler-Ross introduced the Five Stages of Grief a few decades ago. The stages are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Kübler-Ross' model has been heavily critiqued over time, but it is still frequently referenced. There have a number of variations on [...]
If you give a plant lover an employee discount…
Believe it or not, I had never visited Baker Nursery in Fargo until today. I have passed it a hundred times, but I never stopped in. Today I stopped in for what I thought was going to be five minutes to look at a tree that Mike wanted me to look at. I emerged two [...]
THE NEW FORTY 