I want to share an important message with you today - one that I hope you will share liberally with others. The message is about the potential ripple impacts of texting while driving. Please watch this video (http://www.nd.gov/risk/training/driving-ergonomics/texting-while-driving) which is posted on the State of North Dakota's Risk Management Division's website. Show it to your kids...kids, [...]
Tag: safety
I don’t like this news.
I was really disheartened to hear that the missing Montana high school teacher, Sherry Arnold, was declared dead. I don't like that kind of news. This is North Dakota and while I know we are not crime-free here, we have decidely less violent crimes than most other places. I like that about this place. I don't like [...]
Cruel realitities…
My license plate reads IDEALST, but when it comes to the cruel realities of crime in our society I am very much a realist. I am acutely aware of the heinous things that sick and deviant people will visit upon innocent others - particularly children. That is why I have been labeled by Cheyenne as the meanest [...]
Holi-daze…
In the past three days I have been cut-off in traffic by eight different drivers, which leads me to say, "People - WTF?" I mean seriously...eight different drivers driving about town with what appears to be a blatant disregard for their safety and the safety of others. And yippee, I got to encounter them all. Oh sure, [...]
It was me.
I believe in owning my actions. On Friday, as I was leaving the TJ Maxx parking lot, there was a man and woman in a car in front of me that had an unrestrained baby in the car. The middle-aged man was in the front seat, a much younger woman was in the backseat, and [...]
Click it or be a projectile…
I remain amazed, decades after seatbelts have become mandatory items in vehicles and after uncontroverted evidence of their efficacy, that folks still choose to drive around without their protection (as evidenced by the tickets issued recently in West Fargo's enforcement blitz). Apparently, there are still some folks out there who are glossing over the reports [...]
Vanity as a driver of safety?
I was a pitiful sight to behold this morning when I took Cheyenne to school. No makeup, wet hair clipped up haphazardly, a pasty semi-green complexion and an outfit that looked like the room was dark when I got dressed- oh yes, I was quite the beauty. Thankfully, I had big sunglasses at the ready and [...]
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