Persistent. Passionate. Purposeful. Kelly Rivard is all three I have learned over the past four years. First, I was introduced to her via Twitter. Then, I interviewed her when she was a junior at North Central College in Illinois via Skype, as her roommate disrobed in the background, not knowing Kelly was on Skype. Kelly, wearing headphones, intently responding to…
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Who is a Woman in Agriculture you know? What impact has she had on your life? Or maybe you are asking who are even the Women in Agriculture? Hang on for a ride we are taking together. The Women in Agriculture are going to be featured right here, on this blog, every day for 30 days and maybe longer. They…
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Back in 1983, which earlier today I thought was 20 years ago but it took me until a brisk morning walk to realize 1983 was 30 years ago, I was Strawberry Shortcake. My mom made me the costume and the picture shown is me visiting my dad’s advertising agency office. My mom made me a few beautiful costumes through the…
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Seven years ago today, my husband, Nathan and I said, “I do” in a late morning wedding in a large North Dakota Lutheran church. Now everyone has their own love story to gush about and our divine meeting on airplane is just that. You can read our love story in A Flight of Faith. But marriage is much more than…
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Labels. We “give” them to each other—and even ourselves—based on gender, race, education, marital status, occupation, social class, address, religion, dietary choices, clothing and voting record. Single. Married. Dual income without kids (Dinks as my friends classify themselves). Stay-at-home mom. Working mom. Housewife. Farmwife. Not a wife. Divorcee. Cohabitator. Dirt poor. Lower class. Middle class. Upper class. Millionaire. Christian….
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