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Times When You Sit And Wonder You will question relationships. I felt compelled to answer a thoughtful question on Twitter recently. “Ladies: what gentle advice can you tell a single guy about relationships?” I have been married a long time to the one person I...
A Treasure Passed Down If you are the anonymous South Carolinian who recently won the largest jackpot in United States history, congratulations! $878 million is a lot of buckage. How does one begin to embrace a fortune so immense? Personally, I received a dollar every...
What's Happening In Your Neighborhood? Child sexual abuse is most likely happening in the city you live in. It might even be happening to someone you know. It may be happening in your neighborhood, and possibly the person who pulls into the garage within eyesight is...
Navigating The Road Ahead If you have ever thought of life as a journey, you might have pictured a road. I can remember driving my car at 70 mph on the highway for the very first time. I was not thinking of my destination, but rather of holding my car in the...
A Little Girl Dream What little girl hasn’t loved dressing up as a princess? Cinderella made little girls dream of finding a handsome prince, marrying him, and living happily ever after. Unfortunately, for the many thousands of victims of human trafficking, hope to...
Baby, It's Cold Outside It’s another of those compassionate moments. Darn, they have a way of tracking me down. With the temperature in my area at about 42 degrees one day last week, there weren’t many people in sandals walking the streets. The wind chill factor was a...
Be Aware of Human Trafficking She did not see any of it coming—not the deep darkness and not the shame that goes with it. “She” can be anyone. Unsuspecting individuals become victims of sex trafficking and find themselves caught in bondage. Did you know that...
Kicking Back Of course! Christmas was the best ever. With six grandchildren at my house for seven days and seven nights, how could it be anything else? They've returned to their homes, settled in, and have returned to school. With the New Year under way, it’s time to...
The Beach in January It's the place to be on January 3rd. I am, however, not there and not anywhere near the ocean. Darn! I'm still putting away Christmas decorations and reflecting on 2018. Realistic Reflection Out in front of each one of us is a brand...
Good Advice Have you ever been tricked - just plain and simple - tricked? A violation of trust is ugly in any form. Look at these words: scam, bogus, fraud, swindle, phishing, fraudulent, con, hustle. Not a single one of those reminders of trickery is pretty. I...
Out of Bounds! “You’re out of bounds! And you’re not going to score anymore!” That was the yell coming from the boy behind me at last Friday night’s football game. He was not more than five years old, but he was completely determined to exercise his voice...
Emotion Control Is A Contender For Joy Tell me what you think. Is this the coolest cover, depicting the man Simon Hagan—the main character in my debut novel, Eastbound From Flagstaff? How about another opinion? How I do I control emotion associated with...
One Way “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” That's an epic formula for having a friend. In that statement by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was it merely his opinion or can we be confident that the advice will guide us toward having a friend? Is his approach too...
The Multi-Faceted Marvel of An Ideal Friend Connections with other humans and the healthy concept of belonging to another person are part of what we hope for in the multi-faceted marvel that is an ideal friend. From the cradle to the grave, we desire the close...
Courage of Your Convictions Do you have the confidence to act in accordance with your beliefs or ideologies, especially in the face of resistance, criticism, or persecution? That’s courage—the courage of your convictions. It’s the power to choose, and the knowledge to...
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“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
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