Welcome to my blog!

So ... 'come here often?

Yeah, this is my first time. No, really - never. Well, once on a chat site, but I was in college, so I figured it didn't count.

From? Oh, uh ... I live in Fargo, North Dakota. Yeah, like the movie. No, no ... only the older folks and people without satellite or cable TV really talk like that anymore. I came here in 1997; right after the gigantor flood the rest of the country watched on CNN. I had accompanied my then-boyfriend/now husband to his 10th high school reunion at Norman County West (about 25m northeast of Fargo.) While here, I fell in love with the area.

Coming here from Laughlin, NV/Bullhead City, AZ (an area my best friend and I still refer to as the "highest concentration of white trash known to man,) I was struck by how kind the people were, how green the landscape and how normal everything seemed. I was hooked. So when my husband had to move back to take care of a home and his folks, my son & I came along.

Now married, Lee & I are raising 12-year old Mike in North Fargo, awash in our very own sea of normalcy. Sure, there are the trailer courts and tenement-style apartments, drug dealers and bad buys, but they're not as prevelant or visible here. Families are very involved in each other's lives and neighbors actually know one another. It's almost eutopia. Almost.