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(Part 2: Further exploration on this topic.) I’ve been running the TV show “Numb3rs” in the background for a little noise while I paint. Somewhere back in season two, while painting a city scene canvas, episode seven popped up and caught my eye. In it, the character Charlie (a mathematician whiz who helps the FBI) …

(Part 1: Initial exploration on this topic.) Maybe the whole point isn’t about catching the fish, but that having your head underwater for so long that it forces you to come up for air and re-evaluate. The thought has come to me — never mind the path it took to get here — that I …

Floods of short duration are best, for they don’t allow class envy a chance to bubble to the surface. The reader need merely select any story from the current crop of flood-related articles on the local newspaper’s website, and go to the comments accompanying it. You have your random religious nutter sprinkled in and about …

We have too few words for the things that count. We have more words to describe the room a toilet is located in than we do for the different kinds of love, or how we feel when facing abject loss. There are times to be silent . There are times we speak best in other ways. …

Living on the corner of two of the busiest streets in Bismarck, I am treated to the constant sound of sirens, trains, and drivers (usually male) who want to make as much noise as possible with their vehicle. Never mind the usual cacophony of the day. Noise and bustle and “look at me!” all while I …