Entries from October 2009

October 28, 2009

A Letter to the Non-South Dakotan

I am proud to debut WBO’s first guest blogger, Siri Buller.  Siri and I met in 2004 while surviving as interns in Washington, DC.  She works as an attorney in non-profit law, is happily married to her husband Casey, and generally makes the redheaded population proud to call her one of our own — see photo at bottom of article.   (Not [...]

October 21, 2009

Stars! They’re Just Like US!

The most startling aspect of the Richard Heene “balloon boy” debacle isn’t that he used his children as pawns, or that he wasted taxpayer dollars so that hundreds of people could look for his not-missing child, or even that he lied. The most remarkable part of the story is that he did all of this for…a [...]

October 14, 2009

“…and you must be MRS. Reph.”

Last week I attended a political dinner which concluded a conference Mike helped to organize.  Mike serves as treasurer for the Evergreen Leadership Conference and works all year for this one-day event. That he participates shouldn’t really be surprising. That I looked forward to attending may be. You probably wouldn’t know it if you met me now, but I [...]