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From theStart Your Week with Steve newsletterof Steve Henderson Fine Art: Steve Says: "In art school, we were repeatedly told to find our own style and paint it, which sounds like great advice if ...
5/6/13 at 5:53 PM
Lighting up the night
Our second full day on the Outer Banks was filled with lighthouse visits, a ferry ride to and from Ocracoke Island, a stop at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum and a visit to Jennettes Pier at Nags...
10/31/12 at 9:06 AM Oh give me a home, where the Banker horses roam 10/27/12 at 11:25 PM
Meet our newest leaders: Part 1 of 8
Several new faces joined the Fargo Public Schools this summer in leadership positions. In the first of a series, meet David Burkman, the District's new director of alternative education, and the princ...
8/27/12 at 10:08 AM
On Vacation: A Re-Post
Greetings, readers! I am on a fantastic vacation filled with beaches, extended family, friends, and relaxation on the east coast. One of the places that I am not visiting is Beavertail Lighthouse in J...
7/16/12 at 8:00 AM My Mom and the Beach Boys 2/13/12 at 6:30 AM
The Wrecks of the Zephyr and the Commodore, Taranaki, New Zealand
Hunting up shipwrecks is fun to do, especially on New Zealand beaches where access is open and respect for the wreck expected. Following a brief note in our guidebook and not-very-helpful road sig...
4/29/12 at 11:14 AM
Random Thursday on a Monday: L.A. Edition
*I vacation with so much intensity that when I get home I need a vacation from my vacation. Or maybe it just feels like that when you go somewhere like Southern California where the sun is seemingly...
4/9/12 at 12:43 PM
Fargo go Braugh!
What happens in Fargo when it's 76 degrees and sunny on St. Patrick's Day? Thousands of happy people enjoying a parade in beautiful downtown Fargo. Thanks to all the organizers and all the fun folks t...
3/18/12 at 12:59 PM Our future's bright with more solar energy 3/11/12 at 9:33 AM
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes! Fargo Solar Symposium 3/7/12 at 1:54 PM
Defining vacation...
I read that someone once defined vacation asa period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. I concur, that is a truism of vacations. As we wrap up our b...
3/16/12 at 9:44 PM Dot calm... 3/13/12 at 3:37 PM
Saving daylight... 3/10/12 at 7:12 PM
Dipping My Toes
They say the four stages of living abroad are as follows: Honeymoonits aaaall good! Hostilitythis place stinks with all its corruption and pollution and no English TV! Humorsettling in allows you to l...
2/25/12 at 9:19 AM
Counterintuitive
Can you say counterintuitive? Thats the word that a Yahoo news site uses to describe Emily Strunk-Helm, a 36 year old Arizona woman who is in training for the Long Beach Marathon. In an attempt to r...
9/18/11 at 6:45 PM
If the Lake Mitchell Advisory Committee needs a project, here's an idea ...
My wife and two kids and I visited Lake Mitchell's Sandy Beach on Saturday. Immediately upon our arrival, I noticed glass shards in the sand. That was concerning, because we were all barefoot. Lookin...
8/17/11 at 1:05 PM
Whoa! Now that was an aurora to remember
The northern lights were spectacular last night across northern Minnesota! Just by chance, a fellow photographer and I were teaching a class on night sky photography, and our group of 13 headed down...
8/6/11 at 11:56 AM
Cowboys & Aliens - The review
I was anticipating seeing Cowboys& Aliens since I saw a preview for it. I figured it could go one of two ways: it could be fabulous or it could be terrible. Ithink it was the former. The western ...
8/4/11 at 4:33 PM
Hong Kong: Commercial/Genuine
Let's go to an island. Yes, outside Hong Kong's central areas provides yet another outfit in the wardrobe of life here. And on this day, circumstances allowed me to witness extremes of both the...
5/14/11 at 11:41 AM
Old ladies at the beach
Ricky and I have turned some invisible corner this past year. This became disturbingly apparent as we relaxed at the beach in Puerto Vallarta. We don't know exactly when or exactly how, but something ...
3/2/11 at 1:42 PM
