Lately Cheyenne and I have been arriving at her school in the morning at the same time as one of her friends and her father. We both pull up to the curb to let off our respective offspring. Cheyenne gets out grabs her stuff, on a rare day may mutter a hurried "bye", and slams [...]
Tag: Humor
The evangelist
Today I attended a session sponsored by NDSU's Career Center about the popular professional networking site LinkedIn. The presenter, a fellow named John Hill, was billed as "LinkedIn's Higher Education Evangelist" - quite a title, right? I teach a career and professional development seminar for emergency management students and recommend to my students that they [...]
Bad citizen Mary…
I always try to be a good citizen. I am not always 100% successful, but a sincere and determined effort typically gets me through. In being a good citizen, I would never dream of trying to scare the living daylights out of my fellow conference roomie and then audio taping her reaction so it could [...]
The “P” word…
I think people are sometimes a bit taken aback when I fling out the "P" word with impunity. What they don't know is this - the more I say it out loud to anyone who will listen the more I like to say it. I am not going to spend these years cowering in a [...]
The key to blissful driving…
I made a BIG discovery today. I discovered the key to blissful driving while Cheyenne is in the car. I must say, now that I know it - it really was so elementary. I wonder why it did not occur to me before. I know what you are thinking - duct tape. That goes with [...]
Like looking in the mirror…
Today I had an awkward realization. It happened while I was sitting in the turn lane on Main at 45th waiting for the light to change. It was then that I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the woman in the car behind me. The woman was a well-coiffed, seemingly innocuous white-haired older [...]
Apparently my birthday came early this year…
Cheyenne talked me into buying Taco Bell for dinner. Normally I would object, but we had a strenuous shopping engagement at JC Penney and my resistance was worn down. So I capitulated to a fast food dinner. We went through the drive through and upon arriving at the window and paying the middle-aged man at [...]
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