The time has come to break free from the sheltering wings of the High Plains Reader.  Ok, so they probably won’t even notice that I’m gone.  At all rates, the domain http://www.daddydispatch.com will soon be pointing to this wordpress blog and I’m not sure if I will feel the need to simulpost on the Wellness blogs at hpr1.com.  It was kind of an awkward piggybacking arrangement, but I will miss the hipster cachet associated with the one and only alternative press of the Red River Valley.  Or is it the alternative press of Fargo and Grand Forks?  The editorial focus is decidedly North Dakotan, which is fine, but I long for the cultured refinement of the Minnesota side of the valley, with our towns named after women like Ada, and the things that they are like Fertile, and the things that they do like Climax.