If only I could have taken you with me on my tour through North Dakota State University’s research park in Fargo last month.  It was the first time I had ever seen a Clean Room.
No, my housekeeping isn’t quite that bad, although at my house, a clean room is one with no laundry on the floor and […]

I just got off the phone with Ada Red Horse.  She’s going to South Dakota this weekend to visit her sister, and I’m going to miss her.
Ada is one of my best friends.  She accepts me the way I am, flaws and all, and still finds great ways to encourage me to do better, to […]

I bumped into Senator Byron Dorgan, D-ND, at the airport last week.  Literally.
 
I was there to report for the Minot Daily News on a meeting he had called between Northwest Airline officials and half a dozen towns in North Dakota.  The purpose, he said at a press conference before the meeting, was to get a […]

The first time I saw North Dakota, I followed my husband through a blizzard.  The temperature in Fargo registered about minus seventy degrees with the wind chill factor.   The roads were icy.  My baby was screaming, and my hands were knotted around the steering wheel so tightly they ached.
Twice during that move, my husband’s truck slid off the road.  Once the U-Haul trailer he […]