Swing State? You Betcha?

June 28, 2009

Filed in: North Dakota

No, North Dakota is not a swing state politically, it’s deep deep red and always has been. But it’s been swinging back and forth on the Tracy approval-meter, thusly:

First Swing: So all winter and spring, the whole 50th State enterprise was looking shaky. The enormous sums we plunked on the...

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My states! My poor states!

April 04, 2009

Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota

Okay, first, you may have seen that Mt. Redoubt erupted and has pretty much kept on erupting since March 22. We flew right beside Redoubt – it’s on the same peninsula as where we went bear viewing.

In fact, while we were taking our scary/thrilling ride over there, L., the broken crazy bearish...

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Coincidences 1 & 2

February 18, 2008

Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, The Home Front

* How cool is this? The superfabulous Peabody Essex Museum, which I have written about elsewhere, is sponsoring a talk on “Keeping the fire in the dark moon times.” Guess which three dark-moon states, out of the 50, they’ve chosen to highlight? Massachusetts. Alaska. Hawaii. My states, all. 

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North Dakota Dreaming

October 05, 2007

Filed in: North Dakota

This past weekend in Medora, ND, it was a temperate 56 degrees. Perfect for working up a sweat mountain biking or trail riding, right?

That’s what I thought, anyway. Which is why, six weeks previous, I’d emailed my BFF in the whole wide world, N (who, among her many other talents, builds

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North Dakota, Land of Misperception

August 10, 2007

Filed in: North Dakota

So, North Dakotans! Are you weary of people referring to Mt. Rushmore as being in your state, when it fact it’s not?

Weary of people who say, “Well, what about the Badlands,” clearly meaning Badlands National Park, which also is in South Dakota?

(There are badlands in North Dakota, they’re...

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