As of publishing this week's paper, the journalism project I did with Mrs. Julie Mosher's 6th-grade class is completed.I'm pretty excited about how the project went and I hope the kids learned at least a little bit. I think they did.When I talked to the class initially, we really just went over ...
In the world of public speaking, I have apparently become much more of a hot commodity than I ever expected.I wrote a few weeks ago how I was asked to come speak to to a fifth grade class at Little Flower Elementary School.They were doing a news project and their teacher, Mrs. Julie Mosher, ...
By now, most people who follow state and regional news even casually are familiar with the story of Craig Paul Cobb and the tiny town of Leith, N.D.Cobb, a renowned white supremacist, has apparently lived in the community for around a year, and has recently been buying up property and now owns ...
When Jaycees co-president Brekka Belisle asked me to participate in Rugby's Jaycees Jammerz team that will play against the Harlem Ambassadors, it sounded like a great idea.Only a few years ago, I was a regular at noon ball at the Minot YMCA and despite being a solid 250 pounds, could get up ...
In what can only be described as a strange turn, I went from editor to teacher this week.Well, I wasn't exactly a teacher, but I was in a classroom helping explain about some of the tenets of journalism.To be exact, Julie Mosher's sixth-grade class at Little Flower Elementary.It was good to be ...
As of this week, I've officially added one new member to my family.No, I haven't become become a baby-daddy, as the kids say. But my sister was married over the past weekend, and I've added a new brother-in-law.A marriage is an exciting time for any family, and I think I speak for the entire ...
I awoke early Saturday and started pulling boxes down from my apartment in front of the Pierce County Tribune. Books, trinkets, small pieces of furniture and other items.At age 37, I was about to embark on my first ever rummage sale.I have to say I was pretty excited about the prospects of ...
It's hard to believe school is already here.Why would I care about school, you may ask.I've been out of school for nearly two decades and wouldn't even be mistaken for a older-than-average college student with a backwards hat and a backpack on.But the return of school means the end of summer, ...
Sometimes as a writer, you run into roadblocks. I ran into one this week.I'd heard from numerous people that Diane Dufner is an invaluable member of the Rugby community and would be a great subject for a feature story.I started calling around to people in the area who had nothing but plaudits ...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association was in the spotlight this week, after it was exposed again as one of most fraudulent organizations in the entire country.The NCAA has long been one of my most hated organizations, mostly for its ridiculous rules, greed and lack of accountability ...