“Stuff that makes you say, “Oh, for nice”

  • Ghost Tour | September 16, 2021

    Ghost Tour | September 16, 2021

    Kyle and I are tour people.  We love tours.  We will attend basically any tour that is offered to us.  You could say, “Hey, listen, I’m giving a tour of my living room.  To participate, you’ll…

  • Surrender, Dorothy | September 9, 2021

    Surrender, Dorothy | September 9, 2021

    When I was a kid, one of my favorite movies was an obscure little indie film called The Wizard of Oz.  In it, a girl named Dorothy is transported out of her home state of Kansas…

  • Sofa, So Good | September 2, 2021

    Sofa, So Good | September 2, 2021

    We just passed the one-month mark of living in our new house.  At least, I *think* it’s our new house.  Considering there are stacks of stuff everywhere, we may be living in a box fort. This…

  • Good Advice | August 26, 2021

    Good Advice | August 26, 2021

    A huge part of my job is understanding social behaviors; and if I had to use one word to describe all grownups right now, that word would be TIRED.  It’s like being at a party where…

  • Ten weird minutes | August 19, 2021

    Ten weird minutes | August 19, 2021

    I recently came back from a work trip, my first since February 2020.  The actual travel portions of my work trips are typically completely unremarkable – transport to destination, check into hotel, complain to coworker about…

  • Camp Bubbe Zayde | August 12, 2021

    Camp Bubbe Zayde | August 12, 2021

    My children are currently nursing a grandparent hangover after spending a week at my parents’ house at the second-annual “Camp Bubbe Zayde” (Bubbe and Zayde are the Yiddish words for Grandma and Grandpa, respectively).  As you…

  • Summer 1989

    Summer 1989

    This story originally appeared in the May 2021 issue of The Red Cent and is reprinted with permission. Summer is upon us, and my five-year-old has announced that he will soon be a master of his…

  • Friends | August 5, 2021

    Friends | August 5, 2021

    I recently read an unattributed Internet fact that the percentage of men with at least six close friends has fallen by half since 1990; and that men today are five times more likely to state that…

  • Moving Day | July 29, 2021

    Moving Day | July 29, 2021

    I wasn’t planning on writing anything else about our move because, honestly, who wants to read that – but the whole thing was such a wild ride that Kyle basically insisted I record it here for…

  • Squeegee | July 22, 2021

    Squeegee | July 22, 2021

    We are moving; and between packing up and saying goodbye to our current house, renovating and unpacking our new house, working at my job, and doing the bare minimum at parenting, I have reached my complete…

Hi, I’m Amanda Kosior

North Dakota Nice is filled with stories about people being awesome because I love people – and also a weekly story about me because I love me, too. I hope you find something that makes you feel good, and I especially hope you have a great day.

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