Berg Blog

Thanks to Mom and Dad, Meredee and I are going to Fargo for Memorial Day weekend. We’ll be there from Saturday the 23rd through Wednesday the 27th. I don’t know yet what my mom is up to, but we are going to have a reception for family and friends who weren’t able to make it [...]

At one point I was really in a groove writing. Thoughts for blog posts would dance through my head as I tried to sleep. (More often than not, my best writing came between 11 PM and 3 AM.) Other times I would go through the day, observing the world and wondering how I could use [...]

Today I was talking with Karen and Bethany and Karen asked me if I was happy to be single again. The innocuous question caught me off guard and I answered in the negative, trying to contain my surprise. The timing of the question was interesting because over the last few weeks I had been reflecting [...]

Sometimes a compliment can carry us for days or even weeks. There are those that are nice or flattering while others touch us more profoundly. I received one of this variety tonight from Michael Clark, a photographer whom I had met only hours before. At dinner with him, Mike, Tony, and Michael’s friend, he asked [...]

My cousin-in-law Jeff is a Craigslist fanatic. I haven’t used it nearly as much as he, but it has been extremely useful for selling things I would otherwise have no way of getting rid of, short of giving them away. The Buenos Aires version of Craigslist is thriving due to the large population of foreigners [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I hope you enjoy the time with friends and family. Give thanks, eat lots of turkey, watch football, play cards, and go out for Black Friday specials. We are privileged to live in an amazing country that, despite all its shortcomings, is a gift from God. The gratitude I have [...]

Many times events do not unfold as we had planned. After returning from my visit home and recognizing Vanesa and I would have to go different ways, I knew life in Buenos Aires would not be the same. I wanted to be upbeat and believe that life without her would go on as it had [...]

Some ingenious person has decided to harness the power of the Internet and bring the ORU community together by starting a site called Save ORU. According to the site, their mission is to:
• Get to the truth about the allegations against Richard and Lindsay Roberts
• Ask for accountability and transparency for all university leadership.
• Establish [...]

Almost two weeks ago, on Tuesday the 10th, Vanesa stopped by my apartment to pay a part of what she owed on her video camera that I had purchased in the United States. Some told me I would never see the money I had loaned her. Frankly, I did not care about the money and [...]

As I read comments about what’s going on at ORU, I can’t help but notice how few people are standing up for the Roberts family. Regardless of what comes out of the current allegations, I feel vindicated for my skepticism towards them during my four years of college. At times I felt guilty and thought [...]