Today I want to give a shout out to WCCO Belting in Wahpeton. I had never heard of WCCO Belting before today, but it only took one story in The Forum to put them on the top of my favorites list. The reason the company is on my favorites list is simple: they evidence loyalty [...]
Tag: respect
Positive vibes indeed.
Whenever I travel, I try and regularly check the daily news in The Forum online (InForum). Glancing over the InForum site daily is the way that I stay grounded in the sensibilities of home. Today I read a heartwarming story of a girl's commitment to her blind horse. The horse is a 23-year-old show horse registered as [...]
Civility and kindness…are they slipping away from us as a society?
I was visiting Sarah and my new grandbaby Lennon on Wednesday when I first caught the story on television about the bullied bus monitor video that had gone viral on the Internet. The entertainment show that I caught it on only showed a snippet of the video, but a snippet was enough. It was, in [...]
Her pediatrician…
Cheyenne has had the same pediatrician since birth. It was her pediatrician who discovered when she was just days old that she had a heart murmur that needed attention. It was her pediatrician that spent time with us through the years asking Cheyenne about what she was doing in school, what books she was reading, [...]
Eh?
I am in Toronto, Canada today speaking at the Emergency and Disaster Planning Summit for colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. I am fortunate to have been asked to speak about Teen CERT - a program near and dear to my heart. Even more fortunate though is the fact that three of my favorite colleagues are [...]
A bright and shiny fierce girl in the making…Jessica Lynn Holly.
Today I met a special young lady - Jessica Lynn Holly. Jessica is the daughter of Davis and Laura, Noah's friends in Ottawa. I had an opportunity to get to know Jessica while we visited Davis and Laura today. Jessica is quite the social butterfly (or papillon in French as Jessica taught me). I should have known [...]
Dude…WTF?
I have a very personal relationship with God. We are buds...we get each other. Our relationship is respectful and reverent, yet real. I have long believed that I am one of God's favorites because I completely understand the commitment we share with each other and the expectation I need to live up to. Years ago [...]
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