The Lone Prairie Blog

::The first blog post, “Where Is Corky Normart?” ran on my blog on January 3, 2008. The second blog post, “A Mystery Solved” ran on my blog on March 26, 2008. I later combined both blog posts into one story for an essay in my first book from 2016. It’s a blog post people remember and often comment about, so I wanted to share it with additional photos.::

Image © Julie R. Neidlinger. All rights reserved. “Headlines are all the rage in the online content marketing world now, and I’m not...

This is the story of a mystery dinner party I threw in 2014, and wrote about a few months later. In 2014 a friend had invited a few of us...

Image © Julie R. Neidlinger. All rights reserved. ¿hablas español? For a brief moment in high school, I took a Spanish class with about eight other students. We were a small school, and the internet wasn’t a thing, so each week, we’d watch the VHS tape mailed to the school by our instructor, Leonora Sillers, and then try to do our homework. We’d send it all back to NDSU, where Sillers was located, though she has probably long moved away, most likely because of our class. It w

Every St. Patrick’s Day, being part Irish, I think fondly of the NoDAPL protest in which I was told I couldn’t understand the dynamic because I didn’t come from a conquered people.

Image © Julie R. Neidlinger. All rights reserved. A friend jokingly admitted he’d finally made a “privileged and honored” post on LinkedIn. “Virtue signal more,” I said, laughing. He then told me it’s something he sees all the time on LinkedIn. “Everyone does it there, sooner or later. It’s about the only way you can announce something in your professional life.” It’s classic humble-brag language, basically. When you don’t know how to announce to the world something you want