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Blue Like A River: The dying Gaul, a worthy opponent.

When we turn our enemies into a caricature, it's easier to hate them.

10 hrs ago • Julie R. Neidlinger

And A Grand Welcome To Cavalier County!

The road less traveled, for a good reason.

Feb 22 • Julie R. Neidlinger

How's that 52-week systematic theology book for kids been going?

A follow-up to a previous post in the aftermath of a defamation accusation.

Feb 20 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Blue Like A River: Kyle Kirchmeier Interview

There is a duty to maintain law and order.

Feb 20 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Blue Like A River: The thin blue line.

That thin, blue line is like a river. Which side of it will you be on?

Feb 19 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Candace Owens, and how the spirit in you produces recognizable fruit.

We will know the spirit in a person based on their fruit.

Feb 18 • Julie R. Neidlinger

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Books

Blue Like A River

Burning the bridge between red and white at Standing Rock

There Are Dinosaurs In The Fields

Stories from North Dakota

Mysteries of Whisper Bay Book 1

The Crossword Puzzle Mystery

And other pandemic lies

One month is less than a coffee and a donut at today's prices.

Humor

And A Grand Welcome To Cavalier County!

The road less traveled, for a good reason.

Feb 22 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The hidden secret behind food porn.

Everybody is trying to sell you their top-secret cookie. It doesn't exist.

Jan 31 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Applying Carl Orff therapy to the potheads living below my apartment.

No, marijuana isn't harmless, and also, enjoy 4:20 a.m. operatic wake-up calls.

Jan 19 • Julie R. Neidlinger

A buying culture on a no-return trajectory.

I did not know you could return food.

Dec 19, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The United States Postal Service has a few problems just in time for Christmas.

As it turns out, sending a Christmas present to Germany is more difficult than crossing the Maginot Line.

Dec 4, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Investigation + News

Blue Like A River: The dying Gaul, a worthy opponent.

When we turn our enemies into a caricature, it's easier to hate them.

10 hrs ago • Julie R. Neidlinger

How's that 52-week systematic theology book for kids been going?

A follow-up to a previous post in the aftermath of a defamation accusation.

Feb 20 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Blue Like A River: Kyle Kirchmeier Interview

There is a duty to maintain law and order.

Feb 20 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Blue Like A River: The thin blue line.

That thin, blue line is like a river. Which side of it will you be on?

Feb 19 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Travel & Adventure

My love-hate relationship with the Minnesota Vikings.

Being a fan was the only time, outside of watching the movie The 13th Warrior, that I thought mead might be necessary.

Jan 24 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The splendid self-driving camper.

When a hitch is optional but swear words are not.

Aug 11, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The two worst desecrations of the Nazca lines I’m aware of.

One of which you might not have been aware of, which is why I wrote this post.

Jul 14, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

There And Back Again with the Three Sisters.

Or, when Sisseton, South Dakota gets in the way.

May 19, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Offensive Places To Eat And Travel, With Friends

Taking the road less traveled.

Mar 12, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Faith & Philosophy

Candace Owens, and how the spirit in you produces recognizable fruit.

We will know the spirit in a person based on their fruit.

Feb 18 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Are you really having an existential crisis, or might it be something else?

Maybe it's an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, or an underdone potato that's putting you in a tailspin.

Feb 16 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Vasily Arkhipov: the man who saved the world.

It was probably because he wasn't on Facebook.

Jan 27 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Exiting or existing in no-man's land.

Between Christmas and the New Year, and also large chunks of your life.

Dec 31, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Fiction & Poetry

Poem: Ye, Cockroach

An ode to a cockroach I saw in the KFYR building window.

Feb 15 • Julie R. Neidlinger

Too many choices.

Feb 10 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The Mysteries of Whisper Bay: The Crossword Puzzle Mystery (Ch 15)

And Then There Were More

Jun 24, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

The Mysteries of Whisper Bay: The Crossword Puzzle Mystery (Ch 14)

Checkmate At Avalon

Jun 17, 2025 • Julie R. Neidlinger

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