As I’ve written many, many times before, I love, love having sons. They are funny and sweet and weird and delicious and dopey and if I had known they were so great I would have tossed a few more on the pile back when Kyle and I were piling them up, as it were.
However, there are a few challenges that come with being the only girl in a house full of…
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As I’ve written many, many times before, I love, love having sons. They are funny and sweet and weird and delicious and dopey and if I had known they were so great I would have tossed…
If you know us in real life, you know that Kyle is BY FAR the superior parent when it comes to school participation. Looking for a field trip volunteer? Look no further; Kyle is there. Running…
My parents came up for the weekend and brought with them grandparentness: chocolate chip cookie bars, videos of model trains, presents for two very spoiled children, and love. They also brought a bagful of my childhood…
It’s spring. SPRING! SPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. Sweet mercy, I love spring. I don’t care that we still have snow on the ground and it’s 35 degrees the minute the sun sets. I do care that the birds are…
Thank you, friends, for watching and working for North Dakota Today. It was a lovely (and windy!) day to talk about Irene Sprague my Nice Person of the Week, as well as a group for women…
Thank you, friends, for watching and working for North Dakota Today. It was a great day to talk about Arlin and Sarah Fisher, my Nice People of the Week, and a free event for new expecting…
Thank you, friends, for watching and working for North Dakota Today. It was a sunny day to talk about Mrs. Kruger’s 5th Grade Class, my Nice People of the Week, and a distinguished motorcycle ride to…
Thank you, friends, for watching and working for North Dakota Today. It was a lovely day to talk about the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as well as Chris Clawson, my Nice Person of…
We have a lot of great kids in Grand Forks, and I want to tell you about two of them. Meet Lucy Restad and Landyn Adams. Lucy is 11 years old and Landyn is 9; in May, they will be named the North Dakota Long Term Care Association’s Young Adult Volunteers of the Year. The award is presented to volunteers under the age of 20 who have significantly contributed to the quality of life of a community’s long-term care residents. Typically, the Long Term Care Association only honors one person each year. Lucy and Landyn, however, are exceptional. Continue reading
Back in the 2000s, Sadie Ripley and I sat next to each other during the Grand Forks Chamber Leadership Program. At the time, North Dakota was battling the out-migration of local 20-somethings toward bigger cities and bigger jobs. As Sadie and I were in the early days of our careers — and Sadie had excitedly confided to me that she and her husband, Eric, were in the early days of pregnancy with their first baby — the community was especially supportive of giving us professional opportunities that would keep us in Grand Forks. Continue reading
After a springtime snowstorm, Grand Forksers over the age of 40 are required by social law to turn to their children, grandchildren and younger friends and say, “You know, back in April of ’97, we had a three-day blizzard named Hannah and that’s one of the reasons it flooded.” Continue reading
My little sister and I grew up in my family’s clothing store, Silverman’s, in downtown Grand Forks. When we weren’t working Crazy Days, wrapping presents or measuring teenagers for prom tuxedos, we were eating kuchen at A Taste of Norway and weaving in and out of the tables at the antiques store. We spent hours upon hours upon hours of our childhood at the City Center Mall, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Continue reading
A wonderful reader of ND Nice – and a retired master chief petty officer of the Navy – has become my pen pal. He sent a few reflections on his now-shuttered hometown church and cemetery as…
You may know a lovely reader of ND Nice named Esther Donohue through her own blog, The Phat Hen, or through her food truck, Sweet Prairie. Esther is a rural North Dakota homesteader, educator, and mother…
A wonderful reader of ND Nice – and a retired master chief petty officer of the Navy – has become my pen pal. He sent a few reflections on his time in the service, and has…
Hey (as they say in Saskatchewan). I am pinch-hitting today (sans torpedo bat) for Amanda, who is under the weather but will totally return next week. As you may have learned in this space, my name…
