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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: The art of knoephla on a rainy day 
Last week the rain poured outside the windows of the house, bouncing raindrops off tree branches hanging on tight to their leaves, sending water running down the coulees, soaking the dirt, relieving the fire danger and calming the dust on the scoria roads.
By Jessie Veeder , October 06, 2012
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Coming Home: A sense of contentment at season’s change
Fall is in all its glory around here, and we don’t need the calendar to tell us so. Just like the uncharacteristically warm weather, the leaves on the trees were not about to take the subtle approach to the season change. Overnight the limbs of the ash turned from green to gold, the grass and flowers exploded seeds, and the slow and steady oaks began letting go of their acorns.
By Jessie Veeder , September 29, 2012
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Coming Home: Looking for a lesson in a near miss
Last week, in the middle of an ordinary Monday, on the corner of an intersection I drive through every day, a semi pulling a frac tank reacted as a car failed to acknowledge a yield sign.
By Jessie Veeder , September 22, 2012
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Coming Home: Song of home is always worth singing
Six years ago I was a traveling musician on the road in my Chevy Lumina with my guitar in the back seat, Map Questing my way around the country, searching for stages in small towns and big cities, hoping for a few dollars and wishing I could Map Quest the path my life was going to take.
By Jessie Veeder , September 15, 2012
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Coming Home: Listening to inner child in nieces’ voices
There was an invasion at the ranch last weekend.
An invasion of pink, glitter, ruffles, ponytails, princess paraphernalia and all the things little girls are made of, smuggled inside the purses and bags of our three young nieces.
By Jessie Veeder , September 08, 2012
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Coming home: Grandpa’s story explains return to land
WATFORD CITY, N.D. – Last month a documentary filmmaker came to the ranch to visit with my family and I about what makes our community special and to try to get to the root of why the people who chose to stay or come back to farms, ranches and small towns in western North Dakota are so passionate about the lifestyle here
By Jessie Veeder , August 31, 2012
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Veeder: Rediscovering feelings of love
WATFORD CITY, N.D. – This month my husband and I celebrated our sixth year of marriage by digging through boxes of stuff we’ve accumulated throughout our lives together in an attempt to get settled and start our lives in a new house.
By Jessie Veeder , August 25, 2012
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Coming home: Embracing our brand new boomtown
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - No matter where you live in this country, you’ve heard about the changes occurring in western North Dakota because of new technology that allows us to extract oil from large reservoirs that lie 10,000 feet below the surface of the land where our roads wind, children run, farmers cultivate and our schools sit.
By Jessie Veeder , August 17, 2012
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Coming Home: Misfit dogs bring heart to ranch
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - During my years living away from the ranch I acquired some items that are unnecessary and ridiculous now that I’m living out here surrounded by cow poop and gravel roads.
By Jessie Veeder , August 10, 2012
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Veeder: Here’s hoping the cowboy way endures
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - In my life I’ve often contemplated what it means to have grown up surrounded by cowboys of the buttes of western North Dakota.
They are men who drop everything for a neighbor in need, rope a 3,000-pound bull off the back of a half-broke horse and go home at night to rock their babies to sleep.
By Jessie Veeder , August 03, 2012
Coming home: Changes from oil activity bittersweet for native North Dakota musician
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - Jessie Veeder has a story for every hill and tree on her family’s ranch on the edge of North Dakota’s badlands.
By Amy Dalrymple, Forum News Service , August 03, 2012
Veeder: Grandma’s spirit stirs up sweet jelly
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - It’s officially chokecherry season at the ranch. I found the little red berries dangling from branches in the brush patches this week and was reminded of the first summer I spent back at the ranch living in my grandmother’s house.
By Jessie Veeder , July 27, 2012
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Veeder: Handyman’s wife learning many lessons
I married a man who knows where he can get a surplus of washing machine motors in case of an emergency. I fell in love with a guy who has hauled a broken down three-wheeler to all five of the places we’ve moved in the last six years with the intention of making the thing run when he has a spare moment.
By Jessie Veeder , July 20, 2012
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Veeder: Out here, ‘neighbor’ has different meaning
WATFORD CITY, N.D. - When you live 30 miles from the nearest gas station, a good mile from your closest neighbor and hours from a pizza delivery service, the idea of a neighborhood takes on an entirely different meaning.
By Jessie Veeder , July 13, 2012
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Veeder: A huge loss and the need to move on
Monday, in the middle of a summer night below a nearly full moon and among crickets singing their song into the darkness, I stood on the edge of the barnyard watching helplessly as flames threatened to destroy a house that has been a fixture of memories on this landscape for well over 50 years.
By Jessie Veeder , July 06, 2012
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