Place more value on your life and the lives of others than on a text…

My blog entry today is an open letter to a young woman who was driving behind me for awhile today on my way back from the NDSU campus.  She caught my eye originally while I was sitting at a stop light.  The young woman (she looked to be about the age of a college student) had long [...]

One Mississippi, two Mississippi…

Prepare yourself...my geek factor is about to go up exponentially.  Today I was reading my AAA Living magazine - the magazine distributed by AAA to its members.  It generally has information about vehicles, safety and travel  in very short and easily digestible chunks.   I don't know that merely reading it elevates my geek factor dramatically.  [...]

Play at your own risk…

The well-known photographer Cecil Beaton said, “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” That wasn't just a euphemistic suggestion on Cecil's part designed to encourage others to pursue their hopes, dreams and [...]