I am not exactly sure when I started offering up my simple go-to prayer internally to God, but I know I have been doing it for years now. Indeed, every time I am concerned for someone I care about's well-being, see something that I think has inherent risk, or fly in a plane, I offer up [...]
After two weeks of wondering about, and praying for, the folks aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the news has come that all 239 of the people on-board the plane were lost. The presumption is that the plane went down in the Indian Ocean. It is believed that pieces of the wreckage are the items showing [...]
Two North Dakota soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday. The soldiers, Sgt. 1st Class Darren Linde, 41, of Devils Lake, and Spc. Tyler Orgaard, 20, of Bismarck, were doing a routine clearance operation when an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle. Spc. Ian Placek, 23, also of Bismarck, was injured in the explosion that [...]
The Forum gave its Prairie Roses distinction to the late Lowell Balk, the semi-truck driver who was injured and subsequently died after getting out of his truck to help others involved in the December 30th pile-up on I-94. Lowell died a week ago today. I don't have such noble distinctions to bestow as prairie roses, [...]
THE NEW FORTY 