JESSIE VEEDER
FARGO-MOORHEAD CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU Fargo-Moorhead's Celebration of Women & Their Music
This coming Saturday (February 18th) is the Fifteenth Annual Celebration of Women and Their Music. Im not sure how I was unaware of this event until just this week since Deb Jenkins founded it in 19...
Posted on 2/16/12 at 5:04 PM
Coming Home: My love of wildflowers started young
When I was 10 years old, I was obsessed with wildflowers. Obsessed.
Coincidentally, I was also obsessed with 4-H.
By Jessie Veeder , May 18, 2013
Coming Home: Imagining mom before she was Mom
I like to imagine my mother before I knew her, before she became a mom to my big sister and wife to my father.
I like to imagine her with long, straight hair, jeans hugging her ballerina legs, high heels clicking along the pavement and her tan, elegant arms that opened out wide to the world.
By Jessie Veeder , May 11, 2013
Coming Home: Finding right words not always easy 
I sat in the passenger’s seat of his Ford and leaned my head up against the window, watching the bare trees wave in the wind as we sloshed through the mud on the red road that stretches, bends and leads us home.
By Jessie Veeder , May 04, 2013
Coming Home: Warm welcome to new children of our state
I was 9 years old, and the mid-morning sun was beating down on the scoria road, turning the pink rocks to dust as my legs sent my bicycle tires spinning up the steep hill toward the mile of dirt, pavement and cow plops that separated me from my best friend.
By Jessie Veeder , April 27, 2013
Coming Home: Humans, beasts learn to coexist
I know it’s strange, but one of my favorite sounds on the ranch is the yipping and howling of the coyotes as the sky changes colors and the sun makes its way for the other side of the world.
By Jessie Veeder , April 20, 2013
Coming Home: Finding a new quiet in Boomtown
If you were to catch a long-time resident of Boomtown standing in line at the grocery store paying for lunch on the run, fueling up a pickup, or guiding a group of students across a busy Main Street, you might ask what has changed the most about their hometown over the last five years of progress.
By Jessie Veeder , April 13, 2013
Coming Home: Time marches on regardless of what you wish
Lately I’ve found myself with an overwhelming awareness of time and how it passes. I check the clock and wonder where the day went and then I wish for another hour.
By Jessie Veeder , April 06, 2013
Veeder: Country living makes friends as neighbors a necessity
I sat in the passenger seat of my friend’s big Ford pickup as she pulled up outside the front door of the local pizza place. We were stopping to grab dinner on our way home from a photo shoot, a job we took as part of a business venture we started together to foster our love of photography and to fill a need in our community.
By Jessie Veeder , March 30, 2013
Coming Home: Living life on what we have rather than what we don’t
I spent a few days last week transported to a different world, one where I was surrounded by princesses and bedazzled clothing, bright pink fingernails, fruit snacks, make-believe flying horses, dolphins that can talk and a million questions that needed to be answered.
By Jessie Veeder , March 22, 2013
Coming Home: Promise of spring makes one feel young
I grew in a house in a clearing surrounded by oak trees on all sides. Outside my window and behind a restrung barbed wire fence was a homestead that had been abandoned years before my existence, leaving behind lilac bushes, rhubarb plants and a couple apple trees for my little sister and me to climb.
By Jessie Veeder , March 16, 2013
Coming Home: Finally finding the sport for me
I married into a family with athletic capabilities, a competitive spirit and a tight grip on sport-like traditions.
These are qualities I was born without.
By Jessie Veeder , March 09, 2013
Coming Home: Learning to fly when you prefer roots to wings
I board a small airplane in the middle of oil country. I lug my suitcase and stand in line behind a stream of young men dressed in ball caps and jeans, backpacks slung over their shoulders, callused hands frantically finding a way to link thoughts to whoever is on the other end of that iPhone.
By Jessie Veeder , February 23, 2013
Coming Home: Remembering our year in the mountains
We used to be mountain people, my husband and I. Well, maybe not mountain people, but people who lived at the foot of the mountains.
It lasted about a year, and it was one of our chosen adventures after our first year of marriage found me on the road singing and my new husband working on the tops of oil derricks for days on end.
By Jessie Veeder , February 16, 2013
Coming Home: Longing for memories of generations past
I sit at a table beside an old trunk brought over the ocean in 1907 from Norway, across the country by train and then by horse-drawn wagon to McKenzie County.
By Jessie Veeder , February 09, 2013
Coming Home: Retail is the perfect fit – even in Boomtown
My mom owns a department store in Boomtown.
Behind the windows of her storefront on the corner of Main Street and Second Avenue, she sells scarves and blouses, dresses and jewelry, high-heel shoes and other pretty things.
By Jessie Veeder , January 26, 2013
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