In Nya’s shoes…

Tomorrow Cheyenne and the rest of the seventh grade class from STEM will walk to a pond in West Fargo to fill gallon-sized water jugs which they will carry back to their school.  The water jug activity is designed to give the kids a better understanding of what life is like for those who live in remote areas of [...]

The other side of yesterday…

So here I am - on the other side of yesterday.  The sun is out and I think I took my first full deep breath since Monday evening.  Not that life has gotten any less complex or hectic - those are endemic characteristics of my life - but I do feel less weight on my [...]

We were # 316.

Photo credit: Carrie Snyder, The ForumI hate fire - always have.  I think it is because from an early age I had a healthy appreciation of its relentless, take no prisoners' nature.  When I was fairly young my brother was playing with matches in the house and caused a fire in a tall built-in storage [...]