Tonight I’m kicking off April by speaking and sharing with a community volunteer group in Jamestown, North Dakota about election advocacy. They asked me to speak on this topic and for a moment I questioned myself if I could speak on it. To organize myself and help me find my voice, I put together seven things I have learned and steps…
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Nine years ago today, after spending eight months of long-distance dating with a guy that I met on an airplane the prior summer, Nathan asked me to marry him and gave me a ring he had picked out himself. He surprised me. His 30th birthday was the following week and I really thought he had something planned for then. It was pre-digital…
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Did you see the Super Bowl commercial “Like a Girl?” It flashed through my mind as I watched our youngest child, five-year-old Anika, participate in her first peewee wrestling practice last week. It was her idea to join peewee wrestling—and she was springing with anticipation. Thanks to some coaching from her teenage brother who learned a few wrestling moves in…
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Do you know what FFA is all about? As a mom of a FFA member, I do—but as a student and young adult, I had no idea. I married a small-town boy. He wasn’t raised on a farm, but he was active in his local FFA chapter as a high school student. My husband raves about the confidence and…
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Christmas has been over for six weeks. Lent begins today. But I don’t think Jesus minds my house still is celebrating his birth? I promised myself I would have my decorated house done with Christmas by today. But it’s still very Christmas cheery around here. Computer glitches, blog changes and the overflowing winter calendar with kids and work commitments, blogging took a backseat…
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