Category: Mike’s Blogs

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Can Men get Pregnant?

Shari

Pardon my protracted absence. The New Year got off to a very hectic start, and I’ve been slammed. Not as slammed, perhaps, as Dr. Verma here, under the gentle inquiry of Senator Hawley, who had the audacity to ask the good doctor a real brain teaser earlier today – “Can men get pregnant?” That was the question. A simple ‘yes or no’ query that Dr. Verma refused to answer. It’s remarkable to watch, not because of her rhetorical position, but because of her position in the medical community. Dr. Verma is an OBGYN – a licensed medical doctor whose expertise Read More

Happy New Year

Shari

I received this photo last night from my mother at 11:50pm, EST, which I took to mean my parents failed to ring in the new year from a vertical posture, or party like it’s 1999. (Neither will get the reference, but given their headgear, I couldn’t resist a nod to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.) I’m also guessing, with no data or research to make my guess remotely educated, that many of you also packed it in early. Am I right? If so, what pray tell, did you do, instead? Why weren’t you dancing at midnight and swilling Champagne Read More

Baby its Cold Outside

Shari

The guy in the cowboy hat is Larry Rhoden,  the current Governor of South Dakota. Here, he can be seen chatting with me outside the doors of the auditorium at Southeast Technical College  in Sioux Falls, one of four terrific trade schools in the Mt. Rushmore State where I’ve had the pleasure of speaking on several occasions. As some of you might recall, South Dakota launched a fantastic trade school scholarship program ten years ago called Build Dakota, and partnered with mikeroweWORKS to help generate the necessary publicity to ensure its long-term success. A decade later, I’m pleased to report that Read More