The wonderful secret among the inner circles of the aging is that we are joyful again, just as we were growing up in the old neighborhood or a ranch in Wyoming. MORE

Currently, I'm in D26, which is Colorado, Wyoming, and parts of Nebraska. Yesterday was a unique day for me, in terms of competing in Toastmasters at the District Conference Level. MORE

The Pacific Plains Region includes communicators from: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Earn recognition for your speechwriting skills (and other business communication expertise) from the Pacific Plains Region of IABC. MORE

Liz Cheney is throwing money at her joke of a primary run for the senate in Wyoming.   As POLITICO reports, she has invested about $40,000 more in television time. Before that, she had bought $55,838 of TV time. Here is that coverage from POLITICO. MORE

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In Wyoming, people liked the change so much that the first speech given when Wyoming became a state was about suffrage. MORE

Officials canceled classes Tuesday in the Old Forge School District and Wyoming Area School District in northeastern Pennsylvania and Shaler Area School District outside Pittsburgh. MORE

We are divided into 2 separate districts - with a few schools in the Western part of the state competing against Wyoming teams. This coming weekend is a pretty big weekend for a lot of students in the Rushmore District of the National Forensics League. It is the tournament that determines who gets to go to the National Debate Tournament in June. Officially it is called the District Qualifying Tournament, but to debaters, we call it simply "Quals." MORE

Besides laughing out loud at one poster's comment about how his son says the F word more since working at a Chevy dealership, the article reminds me of a time when I had just finished an hour of coaching public speaking at a Wyoming school principles conference. A friend of mine pointed me to this blog post by a woman named Shamelle, "12 Words and Phrases that Automatically Kill Your Self Image". MORE