Today, while working on a riveting Powerpoint presentation on the current state of emergency management accreditation (and understandably seeking any and all distractions), I saw out my dining room window the tiniest hummingbird I have ever seen. It was so small that I initially thought it was a small dragonfly. I watched the tiny hummingbird dance [...]
Tag: Joy
There’s a new social butterfly in town…
I fully recognized something today...I realized that I am now one of those "older" people who find unending delight in having conversations with children. It's been coming for awhile. I can recall the first steps down this road. They came after Cheyenne started school. At first is was just babies and toddlers that I was drawn [...]
My fountain of youth…
The school year is winding down - which means that everything reaches a fever pitch. The end of a semester never arrives peacefully and the end of each spring semester seems to carry the most excitement of all as students and faculty daydream about the long, lazy days of summer. Yet there is still so much to [...]
Splashes of happy color…
I have been in Emmitsburg, Maryland at the Emergency Management Institute since Sunday evening. I have been here teaching a class for FEMA with my ever-pleasant colleague David McEntire from the University of North Texas. The class was only a two day class so I'll be headed home bright and early tomorrow morning. That means [...]
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 [...]
Note-worthy…
It is that time of year again. Time for Cheney Middle School's 7th Grade Orchestra's Holiday Concert. The STEM students (of which Cheyenne is one) are part of Cheney's 6th, 7th and 8th grade orchestra program and each grade performs about a half hour show twice a year. I have been impressed since I attended Cheyenne's first concert last year. [...]
Riddle me this…
Tonight I pose a riddle: What is better than enjoying an evening with your gregarious aunt, your handsome boyfriend, good food, lots of laughs and three glasses of wine? The answer (at least the answer in my book): Nothing. Fabulous evening - visiting with my incorrigible Aunt Gen - that I won't soon forget. Life [...]
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