Gandolf the White Blizzard
It is the evening of January 11, 2013, and I am on the second floor of The Arts Center in downtown Jamestown, North Dakota. In the past couple days the Weather Channel and regional meteorologists have...
View ArticleWinter Memories
Speaking of winter in My Ántonia (1918), Willa Cather noted that “man’s strongest antagonist is the cold.” As I type (on 01/31/2013, just before noon), the dry temp in Fargo, North Dakota registers...
View ArticleBlizzard Orko: Downtown Fargo Snowfall as of February 11, 2013
Readings of the snowfall at 8:30AM (CST) in downtown Fargo, North Dakota on February 11, 2013. I’m not only talking about the weather just because it’s a safe topic of conversation. It is healthy for...
View ArticleWinter Oil Explosion in Casselton, North Dakota
At mile marker 340 on I-94 looking west. Oil plume just to the left of the signage on the horizon stretching south. This afternoon while following up on a US-Dakota War historiographic line of research...
View ArticleWinterscape Driving
Our view of winter driving before the sun set. Typed out on Saturday, January 25, 2014: Since Molly and I are driving in a borderline blizzard, at night, back from Bismarck to Fargo, and since she’s...
View ArticleWhite Chicken Chili
Molly’s white chicken chili. There’s something like a 3rd or 7th polar vortex bearing down on the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region on this sunny, cold Saturday lunch hour. Yesterday Molly...
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