Tonight I had the honor and privilege to have dinner with three veterans and Kaarin Remmich of NDSU's Military and Veteran Services office. The veterans - my son Noah, Dr. Berlin Nelson (from NDSU), and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Barry Bridger from Missouri. We were out to dinner this evening to welcome Barry into the state [...]
Tag: service
Ensuring freedom is not for the faint of heart…
Today we celebrate America's independence. Today we revel in our freedom. Today we stand united in our patriotism. But today as we celebrate, we must acknowledge that this freedom we celebrate has been hard fought and won on the backs of true patriots - members of the military, past and present - and their families. There is a [...]
Big choice: mitigate or distance?
I received an informational email today from one of Cheyenne's teachers about a service project out in the community that STEM's seventh graders were going to participate in at the end of the week. The email encouraged parents who would like to participate to let the seventh grade team know. Well, Cheyenne wasn't home when I [...]
That new car smell…
I love my little Tiburon. It is still awfully cute and its mileage is fairly low (only 75k), but it is getting older (it will celebrate its eighth birthday in 2012). In the past couple of years I have been increasingly thinking about the day when I will have to move on to a new car. It [...]
THE NEW FORTY 