I saw my first big city when I was seventeen-years-old. My high school was in Langdon, NorthDakota, a town with a population of 2,335 people after my family of eight moved there. There was a ... Read More about First Trip to the Big City
The Curse of the Crooked Rocks
The curse of the crooked rocks isn't a Nancy Drew book. These are sad but true tales from my childhood. It was the summer of 1976 in Helena, Montana. The twenty-some kids from the Townsend Avenue ... Read More about The Curse of the Crooked Rocks
When I was a Brace Face Tin Grin
Classmates often called me Brace Face or Tin Grin. Actually, the original taunt was a little longer. It was BraceFaceTinGrinHairyHairyFatStuff. You'd think that high school seniors would have learned ... Read More about When I was a Brace Face Tin Grin
The Three Types of People in the World
The world's nearly eight billion people can be classified into three categories. Yep, only three. These categories aren't based on religion, ethnicity, race, gender, or politics. You don't ... Read More about The Three Types of People in the World
Because the Holocaust Happened
I had the privilege of accessing last-minute tickets to The Holocaust Museum while I was in Washington DC. Read my previously blogged reaction to the mountain of shoes taken from Jewish prisoners. ... Read More about Because the Holocaust Happened
My Teenage Artistic Ability
My greatest artistic ability was revealed in high school. It wasn't cooking, it wasn't sewing, it was writing. I was taking Home-Ec and worked at the Cavalier County Republican as a journalist, ... Read More about My Teenage Artistic Ability
