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Mother artists: Fargo painter featured in documentary about work/life balance

FARGO – An infant crawls around the dining room table where her mom is framing prints. An award-winning director washes baby bottles and laments an acting career that never was. Mothers with grown children come to terms with how their artistic endeavors affected their families.

• Marjorie Schlossman

Financial advisers correct common personal finance myths

FARGO – Misconceptions about money can make for some costly mistakes. The Forum asked five local finance experts about the most common money myths they hear, and why they think such assertions are wrong.

• Money Myths

5 free regional tourist attractions

FARGO – Considering the price of gas this sum-mer, travelers may be looking for ways to trim vacation costs.

• Basilica of St. James
• Maple River Winery
• Big Bruce
• Becker County History Museum
• Nemeth Art Center

Thursday review: Ice cream maker a lot of work

FARGO – Ever since my 5-year-old daughter saw a TV commercial for Ice Cream Magic, she’s been like a walking infomercial.

• Ice Cream Magic

Women behind the wheel: Passion for cars sends area women's hearts racing

FARGO - Kristi Zick fell in love with her husband Ryan’s black ’87 Camaro before she met him.

• Women and cars

North Dakota family bonds, relaxes on annual spring mushroom hunt

ENDERLIN, N.D. - Time slips away in the trees, which block the gusty wind as well as the pressures of the outside world. The only sounds are an occasional bird call and the snapping of fallen branches as Calvin Anderson and Sadie and Jon Rudolph comb the thicket. An excited shout breaks the silence. “I found one!”

• Photo gallery: Morel mushroom hunting
• Jon Rudolph displays a morel mushroom

Tuesday Tip: Program lets kids bowl free in summer

FARGO – Now that school’s out for many students, parents may be wondering how to fill all those long summer days, especially the rainy ones. Last year, I heard about a neat program that lets children bowl for free all summer long.

Staying afloat on swim safety: Preparation, attention best practices to avoid tragedy in the water

FARGO - Local aquatics directors say they’re used to hearing they’re “mean.” No running. No horseplay. No diving. No water toys or flotation devices. No children under a certain age or height in deeper pools.

• Daycare children in lifejackets
• Children wait to enter the pool
• A lifeguard watches

Money Savin' Mama: Discussing finance instead of hand bags

At a garage sale this month, several of my friends were inspecting a purse, trying to determine if it was “real.”

• Sherri Richards

Deep Roots: Fargo Garden Society marks 90 years in community

FARGO - When Linda Bellemare joined the Fargo Garden Society in 1975, some ladies still wore white gloves to its meetings. It was a society founded by suit-wearing businessmen in 1923. The group’s early iris and peony shows included beauty contests for the Iris Queen and Peony Princess.

• Garden Society at Ronald McDonald House
• 1931 Peony Show

Columns

Parenting Perspectives: Slow down, sweet toddler

‘Mommy, please I have fruit snack?” my 2-year-old daughter asked me so sweetly the other morning. It was 7 a.m. “No, honey, you can’t have fruit snacks before breakfast,” I told her.

Parenting Perspectives: Movie’s mom confessions hit home

It’s a good thing movie theaters are dark, because I’m not sure the trio of single girls next to me would have understood the tears flowing down my face while watching “Sex and the City 2.”

• Charlotte and Miranda

Parenting Perspectives: Stroll a little slower

My daughter, Eve, and I went for a walk last week on one of those cloudless, warm mornings that finally felt like spring.

Parenting Perspectives: Cocky mother humbled by 2-year-old’s behavior

Compared with some other 2-year-olds, my daughter tends to be pretty well-behaved.

Parenting Perspectives: Who knew toddler’s day planner could fill up so quickly?

My daughter’s not quite 2, but already she knows the days of the week.

Retail employees share Black Friday war stories

The day after Thanksgiving, Colleen Flynn-Odney simply tells new Target employees to stand back and watch.

• Shopping at Walmart
• Shopping at Bath & Body Works
• Monitoring checkout traffic
• Stores hope basics will lure in customers
• Q&A: A closer look at Black Friday

Parenting Perspectives: Baby is a target for uncouth comments

I was grabbing a carton of milk from the cooler at Cash Wise earlier this month when the gray-haired woman stormed over to me.

Parenting Perspectives: Facebook friend(s): ‘We’re pregnant’

Forget post-World War II. I’m living in a baby boom now.

Richards: Mothers too often go on an unnecessary guilt trip

When women begin the journey into motherhood, we inevitably book a concurrent voyage: the guilt trip.

Parenting: Mom’s on a mission for baby bargains

My mom taught me to be frugal by clipping coupons and shopping at the Nearly Nu thrift store. I once watched her successfully bargain with a department store clerk to get the previous week’s sale price on a pair of shoes.