To the many military members and veterans I know and to the many, many thousands I do not, I thank you for your commitment to the ideals of the United States and your service to our country. Although you are many when viewed as a collective, you are few when scattered about the whole of [...]
America is not the country it used to be. Big money and partisan politics over the last couple of decades have left the majority of American citizens wanting. The chasm between the haves and have-nots has grown dramatically. Our government has become a three-ring circus - a circus no one feels good about. Too often, [...]
Thank you devoted readers of The New Forty for five years of loyalty. I want you to know that postings on The New Forty will be intermittent for the remainder of 2014. This has nothing to do with my health or well-being (well, as long you don't count stress as a detractor of my health and [...]
You may have heard in this age of technology that there is a smartphone app for virtually everything. At least that is what I am told by my tech-savvy teenager.. Dinosaurs like me are still adjusting to the pedestrian activities of texting and messaging. So it came as no surprise that my daughter Cheyenne told [...]
I attended the North Dakota Emergency Management Conference this past week out in Bismarck. It has been quite awhile since I have been able to attend this conference as typically I have a conflict with the conference dates and cannot attend. Fortunately, this year the stars aligned and I was able to attend. I have [...]
When I was young, October meant one thing to me - Halloween. As I got older, I came to also view October as the month of my mother's birthday. After my mother died in 2002, I came to view October as a month in which I memorialized my mother. In 2010, I came to know [...]
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