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Removing the Urban from Harvest.

March 2, 2010

Urban Harvest is a annual event in Bismarck, a combination street fair/farmer’s market held in late summer on Thursdays in the downtown area. It is, to be specific, held right at the corner of where I work. Last year was the first year I was able to really enjoy the event, since I’m new to [...]

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Red flag, green flag.

February 25, 2010

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 were [...]

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Dug.

November 16, 2009

I found the dog I want.
This is amazing, since I do not like dogs.
Let me restate that: I do not like other people’s dogs, but I liked our family’s dogs.
Other people’s dogs are like other people’s kids (except the kids don’t stick their noses in your crotch which, sadly, for some people’s kids would actually [...]

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Get used to disappointment.

October 30, 2009

I’ve been noticing a few admissions of guilt over on Facebook on what I think is a growing problem in this country: adults getting into the Halloween candy about a week before Halloween.
About all I’ll admit to is the fact that the “mix” bag I had seems to lack Snickers bars.
In order to allay my growing unease [...]

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Howling and shrieking.

September 16, 2008

I often find myself distressed as I sit in my room. Across the street is an elementary school, and, through my open window, I am reminded of my age.
I am reminded that I’ve started thinking in terms of “it wasn’t that way when I was growing up.”
These elementary kids have amazingly foul language. And they [...]

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Old yeller.

June 23, 2008
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When I was growing up, there was a family that couldn’t talk to each other. They only yelled. On the bus, at school, even in their house — the kids yelled. The decibel rate in that house was stupendous, and I wondered how they had gotten used to yelling at each other without noticing it.
It’s [...]

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Not enough rum.

May 23, 2008

We’d stopped at a candy “factory” next to the World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, and along with a few other candies, we bough dad some rum balls. At his request. He likes them.
After having to suffer through my driving of the ginormous Suburban on Cumberland Drive, on into a mini-parking lot at a Wendy’s which [...]

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Finding a tic tac.

March 27, 2008

Last week I subbed at school and found myself chatting with one of the young students who had to stay in during recess. We got to talking about what he could expect when he got to high school and had to dissect animals.
“What did you dissect?” he asked.
“Oh, we dissected a fetus pig, a [...]

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Snow-fort diplomacy.

February 26, 2008

The winter brings the need for snow fort diplomacy out on the playground.
I’ve been subbing for a few days, and have had recess duty on some of those days.
“Mrs., um, Mrs., um, Miss…Miss Neidlinger, they won’t let me in their fort!”
This is a common problem out in the snow realm. The playground is littered with [...]

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Sanity, in KJV.

November 30, 2007

During Thanksgiving, my niece and nephew sat down at the table to do a little drawing.
“Auntie,” they said, “draw something.”
Seeing as how it was late in the evening, I sighed and grabbed a sheet of paper.
What to draw?
I certainly was in no mood for grand art.
“OK,” I said. “How about a cartoon?”
They nodded.
I drew [...]

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