Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
By Noreen Keesey “I’m not a leader,” she told me. Then, almost immediately, she followed up with the comment, “Oh, that’s literally my job!” Mary (not her real name) had been telling herself a story about her work and the role she...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
Article and Photo by Pam Vukelic “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
by Paula Redmann | Photography: Photos by Jacy Zoey, 12, was working on her homework at the kitchen table. Three-year-old whirlwind Ari wanted to run barefoot on the cool, lush grass in the front yard. Carlie, age nine, was doing cartwheels. Seven-year-old Ava was...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
by Tracie Bettenhausen | Photos by Jade Neumann When Terrie Rath met Jimmy Carter, she didn’t know why he handed her a bag of peanuts. She didn’t know what he said. She didn’t realize he was President of the United States of America until years later. She...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
Family-owned businesses are nothing new, but the chances of those family-owned businesses staying in the family for generation after generation aren’t good. The Conway Center for Family Business says only three percent of family businesses survive into the fourth...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
After moving 35 times in 10 years, Tabitha Uribe and her family have finally found roots in Bismarck, North Dakota. “We left our small town in East Texas in 2008. We bought an RV, packed up the kids, and chased the oil,” explains Tabitha. “This is our third time in...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
Sometimes the best fictional stories come from real life experiences. That’s exactly the case with Kat Socks’ children’s book, “Pickles the Dog.” Pickles is a real dog, adopted by Kat’s mother-in-law after the Minot flood in 2011. “Pickles just has a beautiful...
Oct 1, 2018 | 2018, October
by Patrick Atkinson | Submitted Photos Editors’ Note: When planning the articles for this adoption issue, Patrick Atkinson of The GOD’S CHILD Project immediately came to mind for the Oh Man feature. He agreed to share his adoption story with us. Here it is, in...
