I was reflecting today on my students who will graduate this year. Some of my favorite students will be saying goodbye to college life in December and May and saying hello to the 40 hour a week working world. I am excited for them to be done, because I know they have worked a long time to [...]
Tag: Humor
My Precious…
Mike asked me this morning if I thought I was addicted to coffee. An interesting question I thought as upon my recent return from Canada I was greeted by a lovely bright flower arrangement set in a coffee cup (as opposed to a vase). I thought at the time, "This man understands me - he [...]
Blame it on the Dunkel…
Sometimes when you travel "stuff" happens. That is undoubtedly the origin of the saying, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Well, Vegas has got nothing on Toronto, because Toronto has David Black. And let me tell you folks, when you visit a city and spend an evening with one of the locals who understands [...]
The shopping hotspot…
Well, apparently one woman's trash is another woman's treasure...along with about a half dozen neighborhood boys. The reclaiming of the garage from the abyss over the weekend created a pile of trash at the curb awaiting trash pick-up. As you may recall from my blog Sunday, the items that we believed had the potential for [...]
A warming sensation…
When I hear of products that produce "a warming sensation" - I can't help but smirk a bit. I like that phrase and as a woman in the new forty I can appreciate the phrase's potential for alternate use...particularly here in the Midwest. Midwesterners are a fairly polite lot - they are not inclined to effusively [...]
The Black Hole…
The Free Dictionary defines black hole as follows: a great void; an abyss. Well my friends, I have been to the abyss and I have emerged alive (barely). The abyss, formerly known as the garage, has been a compounding problem for the entirety of our time in West Fargo. On occasion, the space has actually been [...]
Who you gonna’ call?
Alabama is a lush and lovely state - I enjoyed my short visit there. It isn't a state I could ever live in though as my hair and the weather had irreconcilable differences. Thankfully, even though the weather caused me to suffer aesthetically, it was physically quite bearable. The FEMA course went well and it [...]
THE NEW FORTY 