Living in the Unites States of America and being an American is a privilege and a blessing that I do not take for granted. There is a reason why people from all corners of the earth try to come to our great country and that is because we are the greatest nation on earth. We have a multitude of problems but the plusses far outweigh ...

“ To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say well done. To all of you “C” students, you too may one day be president of the United States. – George W. Bush

For the past year or so , it could be said that George W. Bush has been one of the most maligned men in America. He has received the blame for many of the country’s failures whether it is deserved or not. I personally have always liked the guy. One of his great strengths in my opinion is his ability t...

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

Some of the leading stories in the news this week should cause us all to lose sleep. The alarm bells should be clanging…the neon warning sign should be blinking nonstop. Why?  Because if we do not wake up soon, I am afraid that the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln’s quote above will most definitely become a reality.

Here are some of the incredibl...

“It’s odd that you can become so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you” – Lady Bird Johnson

This quote by one of our former first ladies arrested me as I read it probably because of its unquestionable truth. Perhaps it caught my attention because this week in particular in northern Virgi...

 My mind has been boggled as I have watched the news both late last night and also this morning about the little seven year old girl that has vanished in Florida. She had scampered off of the school bus with her twin brother and older ten year old sister and some other children from the same neighborhood. She ran ahead about fifty yards in front of them and turned a corner. In that couple of minutes that she was out of sight, she disappeared. When her brother and sister arrived home a few min...

I read in the news yesterday that a little six year old boy had been suspended for an extended period of time because he brought a cub scout utensil of sorts to school. Apparently the “weapon” in question was a type of fold up can opener and small pocket knife. Initially the punishment that was being slapped on this supposed miniature criminal is that he would have to attend an alternative school designed for problematic kids for a time period of approximated six weeks or so. Once again, ...

 A lot of my female friends are most likely going to be irritated about the blog today because the majority of them are not all that jazzed about football. I suppose being raised in a home with five brothers and no sisters simply destined me to be a sports lover and fanatic as when I think back, it seems as though that was all that was ever on the television at my home growing up. I can remember many a Sunday afternoon in which my brothers and my dad were in an uproar cheering on either the S...

Isn’t it amazing that David Letterman was cracking jokes about the life and morality of Sarah Palin’s teenaged daughter and yet another news story about him and his own life broke today?

 Last night David Letterman announced during his monologue laced with jokes that he has been having sexual affairs with members of his staff. The only reason that he was confessing this is because he was the victim of a recent extortion attempt by someone aware of this and this person was trying to s...

Our daughter just started college this fall and she is having a ball. She has now been there just over a month and we have received just one “down” call if you will which is not so bad. She is a confident, outgoing, extrovert and so my husband and I were not really expecting her to be experiencing too many homesick days. In fact, she recently said to me on the phone “Mom, I love college, but even if I didn’t, I wouldn’t want to come right back home… I would need to do something di...

 What do Norv Turner, Steve Spurrier, Marty Shottenheimer, even Joe Gibbs all have in common ? They have all tried to coach under the watchful eye of Dan Snyder. I think a fair statement to say is that having a lot of green bills in one’s pocket does not then make one a wise and successful team owner.

There have been countless things said about Snyder over the many years since he took over the Redskins….some say he is way too involved in the whole area of the coaching. There have been ...

‘I read that the terror threat security level was raised today and I also saw on the news that security is being beefed up throughout New York City as well.  In light of the recent arrests of three men in the United States who had been planning and plotting attacks on our homeland, I suppose that I am not surprised. One does not need to be an expert on intelligence and security to realize that some of the recent decisions being made by our president simply do not do much to make the citizen...

 Everyone is abuzz about Joe Wilson , Serena Williams, and Kanye West and their public displays of out of control behavior this past week. The new screaming headline is “WHERE HAS CIVILITY GONE ?” I sort of chuckle at that question because these recent public displays of emotion running wild should not startle us, should they?  I guess what I mean by that is that we are living in the “ME” culture. Apparently none of these three individuals have read the first sentence in Rick Warren�...

    When I first learned about Facebook about a year or so ago, I was intrigued but did not jump in with both feet. Being the tech dinosaur that I am, I was hesitant and really did not want to be bothered with it. My adult son continued to encourage me however and so slowly, I became familiar enough with it to understand it.

            As I said, that was approximately a year ago and a lot can change in a year. For the past four or five months, not only am I understanding it, but I find m...

        A few weeks ago, I was talking with a teenager who I know very well and who I am close to and she was sharing with me her concerns for one of her friends. She has been worried about her friend being “over medicated.” That concern immediately raised my antennae as I see a potential red flag waving any time I hear the words “teen” and “medication” in the same sentence.

        When I inquired further, she informed me that this teen whom she knows seems to be sluggish and ...

        I vowed inwardly to myself that I wouldn’t do it, and I even made a half hearted promise to myself to not do it. I even told some folks closest to me that I wouldn’t do it, but this morning I realized that I simply cannot help myself. I have to write today’s blog on Michael Jackson. I have to “talk” about it much like someone needs a therapist to express some intense inner emotion that he or she has bottled up inside of them.

        Some folks have verbalized their tot...

        In less than two weeks we will be celebrating the birth of our country. I was thinking about that the other day as I dropped my daughter off at her job which is a nanny position for a young family in the military. This family lives on the Marine Corps base and I was greatly encouraged by what I saw in their neighborhood as I drove up to their house. As I was turning into their circle, house after house was displaying Old Glory from a flag holder on the front of their homes. Those red,...