Hi all. Part of me hopes you’re still checking back and that your interest in our summer project hasn’t waned. Part of me hopes you haven’t checked in awhile because I’m a little (a lot) embarrassed at my failure as a consistent blogger. This is Taryn. I’m back in Minneapolis because my job at the [...]

On more than one occasion throughout this project, people have instinctively corrected Kendra and I when we refer to their “town” rather than their “community.” We interviewed a family in western ND whose ranch straddles an invisible line between Watford City and New Town. Another family chose to send their kids to school in Watford, [...]

Every time we encounter people who are not in our family, Kendra tells Hadley something like, “Are you ready to go see our friends?” Yesterday she said this when we were on our way to drop Hadley off at a drop-in daycare so we could have a few hours of productivity. Since Kendra’s a stay-out-home [...]