I read recently that laughing heartily for 15 minutes can burn as many as 40 calories. Over the course of a year daily laughter can add up to the loss of four pounds for the average person. So I guess it is true - you can laugh your ass off. I wasn't aware that laughter [...]
Tag: Humor
A throw down with Morast!
I think I need to initiate a throw down with Forum writer Robert Morast. In his opinion piece published on Inforum he said, "Gwen Sebastian’s turn on “The Voice” this past Monday reminded me of everything that’s wrong with North Dakotans." Say what??!! Everything that's wrong with North Dakotans? EVERYTHING? That was quite the statement. [...]
Left up to individual interpretation…
At a house on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sheyenne Street in West Fargo there is a large snowman whose face looks upward and whose branch arms extend toward the sky in the front yard. The snowman is on the daily route to Cheyenne's school. We have been seeing him there for a number [...]
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed…
I am not sure when sleep became a guilty pleasure for folks, but it seems to have become just that. Somewhere along the line I think we have forgotten as a society of overworked, overachieving people that sleep is not a luxury for our brains and bodies. Our brains and bodies are purposeful in their use of sleep - they [...]
Life’s punctuation…
I must issue a warning at the outset: TODAY'S BLOG ENTRY IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. It will address an issue that is of specific understanding to women in the new forty and I fear it will quickly devolve into a rant. HENCE, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. My daughter Sarah told me I shouldn't write about this [...]
Crashed computers and Grandma Lil – perhaps it is half true.
My NDSU laptop froze up unceremoniously yesterday. When I had to shut it off and restart it, I was a bit put-out and irritated. Then I learned - after about a dozen attempts to restart it that ended in what my friend calls the "blue screen of death" - that my computer would not be restarting for me at [...]
Slam the door!
Tracy Frank has an article in The Forum today that leaves me unsettled. It is titled - When it comes to fertility, there’s no ‘magic age’ - and it caused me to comment out loud to myself, "There certainly are less than magical ages for fertility and the joy of pregnancy." I can definitely speak to experiencing pregnancy, [...]
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