No matter what your political affiliation is or your viewpoint on the motivations of war this Memorial Day let’s do more than shop on the last Monday in May. Memorial Day was originally set aside as Decoration Day to be a time of commemoration for the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil […]
What are you looking forward to today? Is it a well-planned, earned vacation? Maybe a new car that you have ordered with all of its bells and whistles customized for you? Possibly that highly coveted dream home you have imagined? Perhaps the anticipation of an upcoming event this summer propels you from one day to […]
That advertising campaign was developed for the California Milk Processing Board began in October of 1993 and is still popular today. Early ads featured someone with a mouth stuffed with sticky foods or a mound of cookies then the logo and the question would be posed. We all got the message that if we were […]
What does it mean to be a real mother? No matter what your gender, you have probably been called a real mother before. Interesting how terms of endearment are often tainted to mean something foul and disgusting. As moms all over the world since the beginning of time, have carried babies in their bellies, I […]
Over the past several weeks I have been examining the concept of honesty. About a month ago I served as a juror on a criminal case in a city near my home. Until this case I don’t think I have every heard so many blatant lies in an eight day period. While under oath (sworn […]
Do you remember the last time there was a song “playing in your head”, and you were not sure how or when it got started? Well that is what I have been experiencing for the past couple of days. The lines from the song that caused me to stop and focus on the words, and […]
As we move into the second quarter of 2013 how do you look? When you view your character in the mirror what do you see? Those negative behaviors that you planned to leave behind in the past, are they still with you? Those new habits that you wanted to begin, are they part of your […]
We are now in that window of time where many are thinking about colored eggs, bunnies and flamboyant bonnets. What is on the menu has created dwindling store shelves in the supermarket and some left work early on Friday afternoon. There are several programs related to the Biblical account of Jesus Christ, either in production […]
Today we use, or rather misuse so many words. Have you noticed? There was a time when we studied a language and used the words available to express a thought or an idea. Words had somewhat universal meanings. Now we are able to string together all sorts of words, phrases and even sounds on text […]
March is International Women’s Month. The beginnings of this human rights celebration and advancement of women goes back to March 19, 1911 when the first International Women’s Day took place. In 1913 the day changed to March 8th and in 1975 The United Nations recognized International Women’s Day. Today it is considered a national holiday […]