In a perfect world growing up, we are taught right from wrong. Some are even rewarded for doing good. We are punished for doing bad. We have ALL been bad at some point in our lives. Even if it was just that one time and your punishment then, was enough to convince you that the […]

On March 1, 2014, several men armed with long knives converged on a train station in Kunming China, and stabbed to death 31 people while injuring hundreds more. Not a shot was fired. In March of 2010 one of the bloodiest massacres in Nigerian history, more than 500 Christians were butchered near the city of […]

Wouldn’t it be grand if we didn’t have so many signs, and all those white, yellow, blue, and even red lines on everything just messing up the landscape? Just imagine pulling into a mall and being able to park anywhere you liked, because there would be no lines to indicate where you should park. That […]

Almost every day we run into elderly people a lot of them with a very sour disposition. I was thinking about that and would like very much to share those thoughts with you. I know perfectly well this is not a perfect world and these thoughts do not apply to everyone or every situation. Nonetheless, […]

Today is your child’s birthday, mom has a party planned with guests, gifts, cake, and ice cream. It is also game day and some of your pals want to come over, have a few beers and watch the game. You tell them sure they can have their birthday party in the kitchen, we’ll watch the […]

I try so hard to open my eyes from this coma state of mind. My hand clinching yours is not the twitching kind That tear you see is not from the tremendous pain I bear. Oh yes… I hear you, I am very much aware. All the voices in my room contemplating my demise. I’m […]

I can’t deal with this cruel life any longer. I hate my life; I absolutely hate it. I know my life is irrelevant. No one cares, no one will miss me when I am gone. All that I can see in my life is the pain I have endured. The humility, the rejection, the hate, […]

Fifty years ago we were all grateful for the friends next door, or just down the road. Sometimes we even had friends across the country which we contacted by phone or US mail. Time progressed and social media came into play, connecting people all over the world that otherwise may have never met. Social media […]

It used to be a husband and wife then they had children. Those children married and had children and those children married and had children and this is how families begin. When a son or daughter marries, the family of the bride and the family of the groom become a bigger family. If a man […]

Please don’t open that door that I have locked. What hides behind it is not for others to see. My darkest secrets are hidden there, for all eternity. Never to be known by those I have mocked. The skeletons in that closet are locked away as I laugh and make fun of others. Their father’s, […]