Steep Me a Cup of Tea.

I am addicted to the tea from Steep Me, a specialty tea shop here in Bismarck, North Dakota. Visiting the shop is a fun experience in its own right; it’s clean and peaceful and airy and full of great pottery and all things related to tea. My favorite teas — that is, the teas that [...]

Intersections.

Walking home from work yesterday, I got through the second intersection on my route just in time to be a spectator to a man cursing and swearing at his wife/girlfriend. She’d pulled over to pick him up in front of a clinic, and he was angry because she hadn’t seen him immediately and had made [...]

Red flag, green flag.

In elementary school, we had color books that taught us about “red flag, green flag” touches. The focus was on child abuse, and finding out if kids had been abused. There were line drawings of nude kids in the coloring book at the end, after pages of discussing various acceptable and non-acceptable touches. Our instructions [...]