Today is a special day for you and maybe even me.

Is today a special day for you?

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What did you father teach you?

What did your father teach you?

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Young teenage girls sold into marriage in Ethiopia.

Young girls in Ethiopia, sometimes as young as fourteen, are sold so the rest of the family can have enough food to eat.

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Mt St Helens years later

Do you remember where you were on May 18th, 1980? I do. I was living in Olympia, Washington and the whole top of Mt St Helens blew off. We drove down to a location where we could see where the mountain used to be. The dark cloud of ash and rocks blanketed the sky. The ash boiled out tens of thousands of feet in the air with lighting streaking through it. It was a true...

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Remember mother this Sunday.

Mother’s day is Sunday.  A day to honor the great woman who brought each of us into this world, nourished us, and provided us with decades of care and love. The true meaning of all this is lost on most of us until you can no longer thank our mother. We all have certain phrases our mother used. Certain things she said, some having deep meaning while other made us...

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Suicides among baby boomers up over 50%

I read an article on middle age suicides and how the number has increased by 50% in ten years. That’s me! That’s where I am as far as age, but what drives a person to end his life? In my nonprofessional opinion I think it is failure and the inability to recover from it. I don’t care it is the loss of a long time job, family problems, or repossession of a home....

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