In heat like this with high humidity, I feel a bit like the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. The iconic screech - "I'm melting...I'm melting!" - plays over and over in my head and I literally feel like I am melting. Of course, I am not literally melting - but [...]
Tag: weather
A rose by any another name…
The whole clan packed up and visited the beach community of Santa Cruz today. It was rainy and gloomy day in Santa Cruz. The temperature only reached the high 50s. In a local store, a young female employee dressed in jeans, a sweater and a scarf spotted me in my summery top, capris and light cardigan sweater and said [...]
Armchair quarterbacking…
Dictionary.com defines an armchair quarterback as "a person who offers advice or an opinion on something in which they have no expertise or involvement." There is an awful lot of armchair quarterbacking today as it applies to various weather forecasts for the Midwest's February 28/29 storm. In particular, a lot of folks in the Fargo-Moorhead area [...]
Helping out my buddies Phil and Chuck…
I believe in helping others when I can. As such, I am willing to offer my assistance to the two most popular groundhogs - Punxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck. It seems they disagree on whether we will have six more weeks of winter of an early spring. I can understand why there is some confusion [...]
The New Forty prophecy…
My son Noah was over last night and we were discussing everything from the evolution of man as a species to the shifts we have and will see in society. Noah is a big thinker and loves to engage in big thoughts and discussions. So of course the Mayan prophecy came up (the prophecy that [...]
Call me Nancy Drew…
A brown Christmas and spring-like temperatures - what in the world is going on here? Somehow, the Fargo area seems to be sitting in a relative weather bubble - and folks are enjoying (or lamenting - depending on who you are) weather that is very un-Fargo like for this time of year. The risk of a [...]
Charlies beware…
I have been suffering with a general malaise since Monday which has resulted in an overall state of lethargy and sporadic bouts of extreme crabbiness. I had been assuming that the root of my crabbiness was exhaustion or the outgrowth of doing too much or my frustration with the never-ending discussion in the media of [...]
THE NEW FORTY 