NICOLE PHILLIPS
KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS Kindness comes at just the right time
I love stories of serendipitous kindness. Those times when someone calls just when you need to talk, a friend delivers a book that contains the exact words you need to hear, or a stranger delivers a ...
Posted on 6/8/13 at 8:42 AM
DIVA CONNECTION: GIVE. CONNECT. RECEIVE. Mark Your Calendars for May 11
Diva Connection Foundation is growing and empowering more women than ever! That also means that more women are finding us and asking for help. In order to continue spreading the good news about DC, wi...
Posted on 4/1/13 at 4:50 PM
Phillips: We can learn from a child’s act of kindness 
I used to work in the news business. Every day, a team of people, including myself, had the incredible responsibility of choosing which stories should be covered.
By Nicole Phillips , June 22, 2012
Phillips: Giving trumps getting
At a certain age, women tend to begin complaining about birthdays. They aren’t exactly welcomed holidays like they were when we were 5- or 6-year-olds.
By Nicole Phillips , June 15, 2012
Phillips: Acts of kindness often come in our time of need
My first job was as a television traffic and news reporter for a morning show in Milwaukee. It was 1998, and I was making $18,000 a year. When the job was offered to me, I was ecstatic. I got to be on TV and they were going to PAY ME!?
By Nicole Phillips , June 08, 2012
Share your stories of kindness with columnist Nicole Phillips
Have you witnessed a random act of kindness? Share your stories with Nicole Phillips for her “Kindness is Contagious” column, which appears each Saturday in SheSays.
By Forum staff reports , June 08, 2012
Phillips: Acts of kindness will always come back to you
School is out for the summer in Fargo, so I feel it’s safe to let you in a little family drama. My sweet, 6-year-old boy, Charlie, made a really bad decision a few weeks ago.
By Nicole Phillips , June 01, 2012
Phillips: A kind act helps us slow down, see the good
I feel like I’m in the middle of a tiny tornado. Or maybe it’s just a big windstorm. Either way, the world is moving quickly, and I can barely catch my breath.
By Nicole Phillips , May 25, 2012
Phillips: Water quenches more than thirst in some cases
There are a lot of people who are going to be challenging themselves today.
I love the way the entire F-M community embraces the Fargo Marathon. Those who can run, run. The rest of us fall into line, either helping out with race day preparations, playing music along the route or handing out water.
By Nicole Phillips , May 18, 2012
Phillips: Secret angels watch over those who need them
A woman on my street recently lost her husband. Her three kids lost their dad. I’ve never met any of them, but I find myself thinking about what I could possibly do to let them know I care about the pain they are going through.
By Nicole Phillips , May 11, 2012
Phillips: Community support of one helps others
People have bad days. For some, it seems like life just keeps throwing them curve balls. That’s how Heather from Fargo feels sometimes.
By Nicole Phillips , May 04, 2012
Phillips: Neighbors fully repay a lifetime of kindness
What if kindness were cumulative and contagious? What if everything you did your entire life to or for another person all added up to how people treat you at the end of your life?
By Nicole Phillips , April 27, 2012
Phillips: Our own needs lead to kindness
I don’t think too many people wake up on a Saturday morning and say, “Today I am going to be kind.” I think sometimes, kindness just sort of happens. But I do believe that when it happens once, it’s likely to happen again, because as Daphne Meyers from Fargo writes, even if you didn’t set out to be kind, the feeling you get from doing something nice can turn you on your head … in a good way.
By Nicole Phillips , April 20, 2012
Phillips: Memphis man recalls double acts of kindness
If you moved out of the Fargo-Moorhead area, would you still read The Forum? I am constantly amazed by the number of people who write to me, saying they grew up in this community, have moved away, but still like to keep up on what’s happening here.
By Nicole Phillips , April 13, 2012
Phillips: An opportunity to share some kindness with women in need
I’m about to use this newspaper space for my own selfish reasons. Oops, not a good start in an Easter weekend, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.
It’s a risk I’m willing to take because I know there is a group of teen moms in Fargo who sleep without blankets, so their babies can have them instead.
By Nicole Phillips , April 06, 2012
Philips: A sweet story about an act of kindness
Girl Scout cookies. Those three words breed some strange mix of excitement and anxiety deep inside my soul. I love Girl Scout cookies. I’m always excited when I start hearing about them because it means spring is on the way.
By Nicole Phillips , March 30, 2012
Phillips: Surprise gift makes princess Abigail’s dream come true
If the quickest way to man’s heart is through his stomach, then the quickest way to a mom’s heart is through her children.
By Nicole Phillips , March 23, 2012
View your ad here! Cost effective targeted advertising.
Contextual advertising starting as low as $79/month. This includes targeted ad delivery and search results!
Add your business to the Marketplace »
RSS Feeds