Another full house and a standing ovation for the final performance of Guys on Ice last night at the Fire Hall Theatre in Grand Forks, N.D. It was a great finish to a very fun run. In eleven performances and a half dozen or so rehearsals, I didn’t fall off the stage once. To me that’s success. Thanks to everyone …
A good meat sauce goes a long ways when it comes to pasta. Ask just about any kid, and they’ll tell you so. I can attest to that. One of my favorite meals as a youngster was a meat sauce that we used to have over pasta for school hot lunch. My Auntie Helen Tiedeman, who was the head cook, always made …
I learned about this earlier in the week, but today it became official, when my copy of North Dakota Outdoors arrived in the mail: Add bighorn sheep to the list of species for which there will be no hunting season in North Dakota this year. Or for the foreseeable future. At least not likely in my lifetime. The Game and …
For what it’s worth, Kerstin Kealy’s interview with President Obama today is not exactly a first for the station. Former WDAY-TV anchor Marv Bossart was one of several local television reporters to conduct a sit-down interview with President Reagan at the White House about a year before his presidency ended in 1989. Marv recalled later to many of us that …
‘How we won net neutrality’ Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, explains why the FCC’s decision to ensure fair treatment of all Web traffic on Internet service provider networks is a victory for the public over corporate lies and deception. “This is what democracy looks like,” Aaron writes. “The FCC is reversing a decade of failed policies, rejecting …
A wintry February drive through the Pembina Gorge in northeastern North Dakota entertains this midday respite, listening to French-Canadian radio via Manitoba airwaves. Le touriste, indeed! Damien Robitaille – Le Touriste du Temps Le touriste du temps S’promène sur le calendrier Hier, vers le futur Demain, vers le passé S’il passe par mon époque, qu’il vienne frapper à ma porte …
Nothing makes me think of spring more than rhubarb. So, when I come across some of it in the freezer during the dead of winter, my heart soars. Actually, we’re less than a month away from the official first day of spring. And even though those of us who’ve lived in the Northland all of our lives know that we …
Here’s an update to a post I wrote last night regarding North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Douglas Goehring. Thanks to Valerie Barbie-Bluemle for pointing this out to me this morning. You can read yesterday’s post by going here. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General released its report Monday that tells why it will resume federal inspections of pesticides in North …
North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Douglas Goehring is all over the news media this week saying he was “blindsided” by the EPA. Looks to me like he was just blind. And pretty stupid, too, and now he’s going to cost the U.S. taxpayers a bunch of money, if the EPA has to send in a team of federal pesticide inspectors to …
Ginny and I were terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Earl Williams today, one of WDAY Radio’s best and brightest. Earl is probably best known as one-half of the Earl & Don Show on WDAY, Don being Don Dresser. Even as a snarky teenager, more into rock music rather than ‘DAY’s middle of the road format, Earl & Don …
Kea snarled at her Master when he tried to get into bed last night. Yes, the dog was occupying His space, which sometimes is shared territory, until he needs to sleep, which is far less than the dog’s requirement these days. At least the spot her hairy body vacates is warm, a good thing when the temp is set at …
By now, every alert North Dakotan must know about last week’s rather unorthodox take on religious freedom by the state House of Representatives. Republican leaders in District 24 (Valley City area) took to the Web to sound the alarm: A Muslim, the president of the Bismarck Muslim Community Center, was going to offer the daily invocation in the House chamber. …
UND (16-9-3 WCHA, 20-11-3 overall) finished the regular season with it fourth consecutive shutout by defeating Minnesota St.- Mankato (1-26-1 WCHA, 3-30-1 overall) 2-0. UND is locked into third place in the WCHA and tied for eigh th in the Pairwise raking, with a good chance of making the NCAA tournament.
UND (9-6 Big Sky, 17-10 overall) hosted Sacramento State (10-5, 12-14 overall) in a battle for second place in the Big Sky Conference. Down by as many as 19 points, UND rallied back, but fell just short in a 64-62 loss Saturday in Betty Engelstad Sioux Center in Grand Forks, N.D .
Oliver Sack’s soaring essay on the end of his life (read it here) somehow reminded me of an experience I had several years ago while camping in Colorado. I had come down from my campsite in the high country to visit friends in the town of Crested Butte. They were husband and wife, both scientists, and they were a high state …
In nearly 50 years as a professional writer, I have never done this before: Fuck. Yes, you have just witnessed the very first time that I have typed that word. Ever. It’s not quite the first I’ve thought it. (There was that incident when my husband lost one of his hearing aids in the back yard, then found it … …
It recently occurred to me that I’ve lived with the characters of my new novel almost as long as I’ve known my children. Wendell Smith, the haunted World War II veteran; his saintly wife, Selma; their son, William; Wendell’s steadfast sidekick, Francis; Claire Cavanaugh, the beautiful young woman with a secret of her own; Claire’s devoted husband, Larry. They are …