Stolen Moments

Simple, straightforward thoughts on parenting, politics and cultural trends.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Bowden plows fields of scorn

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Award-winning author Charles Bowden, who wrote the National Geographic article “The Emptied Prairie” about North Dakota ’s dismal hopes, vis...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Is expensive gas a real bargain?

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I drove past a local Starbucks last week and noticed a line for the drive through that wrapped around the entire building, out of the parkin...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thoughts on nesting and letting go

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This week I embraced a spring ritual, common for many but new to me -- spring cleaning. A book I stumbled across at the library titled, “How...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Motherhood is a Most Important Job

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I was in the kitchen when an urgent declaration from my two-year-old drew me upstairs. As I neared the top, I saw him standing on the landin...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Higher Ed Budget Uninspired

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Count me among the many North Dakotans who raised their eyebrows last month when state higher education leaders requested a $250 million f...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

Can We Fix It? Yes We can!

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I’ve been cleaning up a lot of messes lately – the product of little boys more focused on destruction than construction. One recent dis...
Monday, March 24, 2008

The Power of Forgiveness

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The image of Silda Wall Spitzer is something I can’t forget -- a once mighty corporate attorney with a Harvard law degree wilting like a dyi...
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Julie Fedorchak
I have a shelf in my bedroom of dusty books like the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “A Purpose Driven Life” -- all of them barely touched. Supposedly those books are very good, but they are just no match to Sex in the City re-runs at 10 p.m. So I am amazed by people who have well-established five- or 10-year plans. I used to try that, but gave it up when I turned 30 and my “plan” called for being married with three kids. I wasn’t even engaged. I prefer to stick to simple, universal goals. Be a good wife, loving mom, loyal friend, honest worker. This approach offers flexibility whenever I’m faced with life’s numerous crossroads. I have a journalism degree and wrote a weekly column as a student, but for the last 20 years I’ve been writing words almost exclusively for other people to say. My husband and I have three children and I have a communications consulting company that keeps me engaged professionally on a schedule that I can sometimes even control.
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