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: 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
Coming Home: Cattle dog a necessary companion
Out here on the ranch there are a few necessary things that help us manage the work and the cattle through spring mud, summer heat and winter snow drifts.
By Jessie Veeder , January 19, 2013
Coming Home: A recipe is more than what’s on card
She held the paper in her hands like it was some fragile thing that could catch air in our kitchen and float away. The lines on the card revealed her mother’s recipe ready to be passed along to her son, my husband, on an overcast January day at the ranch.
By Jessie Veeder , January 12, 2013
Coming Home: Friends get us through long winters
Winter. Now that the holidays have passed I think we’re officially in the heart of it. And I’m staring down January like an intimidated opponent, refusing to back down but panicked on the inside.
By Jessie Veeder , January 05, 2013
Coming Home: Falling in love again next to the cedar tree
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. We have fluffy snow on the ground, the lights are up, the wreath is on the door, and – much to the pug’s dismay – I scrounged up his Santa suit.
By Jessie Veeder , December 22, 2012
Coming Home: Learning to recognize a changing home
It’s a strange thing to live a place that changes with each passing hour.
It’s even stranger when that place is your hometown, once etched on the back of your hand, speckled with memories of ice cream at the corner diner, driving down Main Street with your new license and old car, football games on Friday nights and the street where he first kissed you.
By Jessie Veeder , December 15, 2012
Coming home: No apologies from the hat, boot crowd
I know it’s not the hat that makes the man. I know it’s not his boots or his button-up shirt or the buckle on his belt that truly reflects the character behind the clothing.
By Jessie Veeder , December 08, 2012
Coming Home: Comfortable singing to the heart of America
When I was touring, some of my favorite spots weren’t necessarily my destination, but the Main Streets I passed through on my way to the next stop.
I liked the small towns the best. I liked the way the storefronts lined up.
By Jessie Veeder , December 01, 2012
Veeder: Tradition (and turkey) best part of holidays
I hope the holiday was good to everyone. I hope the sun rose bright and warm and flooded your kitchen with streams of light while you or someone you love basted the turkey and rolled up your sleeves, saying something like “Whew, it’s warm in here isn’t it?”
By Jessie Veeder , November 24, 2012
Coming Home: Landlocked but living close to the sea
Win tickets to CD-release concert
We’re thawing out after the first major snowstorm of the season that sent us digging out our parkas, mittens and wool socks before the rain turned to ice and the promised 12 inches of snow.
By Jessie Veeder , November 17, 2012
Coming Home: Embrace deer-hunting season
Ladies, did you wake up before the sun on Friday to find a strange man who looks a little like your husband, only with a beard and camouflage pants standing in your kitchen?
By Jessie Veeder , November 10, 2012
Coming Home: Rural water brings big changes
When you live well outside the city limits there are several modern conveniences that farming and ranching families sacrifice. Chinese food delivery, a quick trip to the movie theater and a dirt-free vehicle are a few.
By Jessie Veeder , November 03, 2012
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