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I am Jessie. A singer, writer, photographer, art advocate, and a mom living on a ranch in the middle of North Dakota's Wild West! Read the poetry and the stories, listen to the music, look at the pictures, get inspired, give us ideas and come see it for yourself someday.
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1w ago
When I was a little girl, my favorite book of all time was “My Side of the Mountain.” It’s a classic, about a boy who finds himself living away from home in the wilderness of the mountains inside of a giant ..read more
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1w ago
Full disclosure, I am posting this from my perch for the week in Arizona, where I am performing and hanging out in the Author’s Tent at the Art of the Cowgirl event in Wickenburg. And since this week’s column is ..read more
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3w ago
“The magpies are back,” my dad said casually in conversation while we were driving somewhere. Or maybe he was in the middle of putting honey in his tea at my kitchen counter while the kids interrupted us endlessly? The magpies ..read more
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1M ago
This morning, I opened a manilla envelope I had stored in my backpack to take back from Nevada to my home in North Dakota. A few weeks ago I was standing on a variety of stages in Elko for the ..read more
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1M ago
Hi from the ranch! We back from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV after one big week away and two days of driving north under a blizzard warning. I have lots to say about the experience, which I’m ..read more
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1M ago
Yesterday the girls Facetimed my in-laws to show them their new rooms. Their grandparents are spending the first three months or so of 2025 in the desert, away from the frigid temperature that is North Dakota. As their granddaughters pointed ..read more
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1M ago
My mom, who has owned a clothing store on our Main Street for over 12 years, is officially closing the doors on that chapter of her life this month. An end of an era, we’re calling it. This store has ..read more
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2M ago
For the past six months, every time we visited our local Cenex store, my daughters would pick out a color swatch from the paint section and ask to re-paint and redecorate their rooms. I would tuck the swatches, bright purple ..read more
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2M ago
There’s a joke I always make on stage during my performances. It involves holidays in my grandma’s tiny house on the ranch and how, looking back, we managed to pack three families with young kids in a 600-square-foot house for ..read more
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2M ago
Greetings from the ranch, where I’m sitting next to the Christmas tree and am happy to report that it’s still standing despite blatant disregard for the no-cartwheels-in-the-living-room rule. The elf is making a snow angel in a pile of flour ..read more