The video footage of Ray Rice, now a former Baltimore Ravens player, punching his fiance in the face and knocking her out has been all over the news. The footage captured a February incident, but for some reason the Ravens just got around to letting Rice go. It is clear in the footage (see it [...]
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My new favorite hero – Kristin Beck.
My new favorite hero is Kristin Beck. I learned of Kristin Beck's story when I saw an interview that Anderson Cooper did with her on CNN. CNN Films produced a documentary about her titled: Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story. In the interview I found Kristin to be so dignified and at peace with herself [...]
The purge
Today I conducted a clothing purge event from two of my stuffed to capacity closets. My goal was to give away to the girls in my family or charity at least 10 things. Seeing as I easily have a few hundred things, 10 seemed like a cake walk. I started off slowly picking out a [...]
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It isn’t always black and white…or is it?
I have watched the events after Michael Brown's shooting unfold. I have been purposeful in refraining from comment on social media sites and in groups, but I have been listening. I have heard two versions of the story surrounding Michael Brown's death. In one version, an unarmed black teenager was murdered by a white officer. [...]
Annoying? Perhaps. Necessary? Yes.
Those New Forty readers in the areas of North Dakota and Minnesota who were under a tornado warning early this morning may feel a similar angst to that which I heard today from folks regarding the warning systems that sought to warn them of potential tornadoes in their area. It is a rare individual who [...]
17 minutes…
Miss Sparkle is on week two of tenth grade. This year she is at West Fargo High School (her home school) as opposed to Sheyenne High School (where the West Fargo School District housed all the ninth graders). Let me be the first to say, what a difference a year makes! In ninth grade there [...]
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