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Who wears short shorts | May 10, 2023
After last week’s story about my hot hockey mom friends, one of their husbands strongly suggested I also write something about the hockey dads (he actually said “hot hockey dads” but let’s not get ahead of…
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Hockey Mom, Part 2 | May 3, 2023
My eleven-year-old has one more tournament weekend left in his spring hockey schedule. I’m the one who packs for hockey tournaments because it requires a certain je ne sais quoi and Kyle does it wrong. Here…
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Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble | April 26, 2023
Kyle has been traveling quite a bit for work lately; in the last five days I’ve seen him for approximately 15 hours (a MAGICAL 15 hours, though, filled with laundry and sleeping romance). Back when our…
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The Flood of 1997 | April 19, 2023
On April 18, 1997, the Red River of the North broke through walls upon walls of sandbags and swept over Grand Forks, North Dakota. As the city was evacuated, firefighters waded through chest-high waters to quench…
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The Toblerone | April 12, 2023
The Jewish holiday of Passover kicked off last week. Passover was my favorite holiday growing up because my parents would replace the living room furniture with stacks of card tables and invite over as many non-Jews…
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A Love Story | April 5, 2023
My seven-year-old, a goalie, played in a hockey tournament this past weekend. His eleven-year-old brother, also a goalie, was forced to attend. At the end of the second game, Eleven – who had spent the previous…
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Kids these days and their darn rock ‘n roll music | March 29, 2023
My weekend Facebook feed was top to bottom about the appearance of northern lights – aurora borealis for us sophisticates – in North Dakota last Thursday. If you’ve never had the good fortune to see the…
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No sleep till Scottsdale | March 22, 2023
My boys and I recently returned from a vacation in Scottsdale, Arizona. We were gone the exact amount of time it takes a human body to decide, “Hear ye hear ye, pull out yer flip flops…
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Wild Kingdom presents: The father-son hockey game | March 15, 2023
My eleven-year-old’s hockey team had its wrap-up party, and I was absolutely set against writing about it because 1) I don’t want people to avoid spending time with me for fear they will end up as…
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Better let you go | March 8, 2023
If you are a North Dakotan, you know there’s a darker – but not like “Darth Vader” dark, more like “grumpy Death Star janitor” grey – side to the concept of “North Dakota Nice.” Specifically, North…
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