I actually started writing about the documentary Just Melvin, Just Evil?-- a story about generational sexual abuse -- about eight months ago. It's an important piece, but I had to put it down. I just...
Nelson Mandela said:
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
If that is true, our society has a very dark soul.
Portland, Oregon, like so many American...
To date, more than 390,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19.
As of Saturday, there are 23,644,885 confirmed cases in the United States.
By the time you read this, it will be much higher, as officials warn we could...
Congratulations. You've won. You've earned your ticket into Heaven by showing your son God's love.
You've shown your son God's love by not allowing him to bring me to your home for Christmas. You've done exactly...
What would those closest to you say was the purpose of your life?
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
We all remember being in school and getting teased by classmates. Now, bullying is much easier to do while remaining anonymous on the internet.
Some 43% of kids have experienced cyber-bullying, and one in four have had...
Uh oh. When pregnant Shanee Hart told her son, Tre', she was expecting another baby, the young man was not happy. Not at all. Tre? lives with his family in Ft. Lewis, Washington. And he...
Dad had a stroke. He has had several heart attacks in the last five years, but never a stroke. There was a bleed on his brain, and we were scared. I cancelled all my appointments,...
On April 12, 2016, then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a campaign rally at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York in which he talked about the "physiology of poverty."
In other words, concern over where...
In January the Obama family will be moving into a new Washington DC home. The leased home they have selected is incredibly impressive and the perfect place to end his amazing run as President.
The President and his wife insisted...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to deny millions of refugees admission to...
In the wake of the tax bill, President Donald Trump shifted his confrontational tactics. After the president signed the partisan legislation, the White House changed its tone. To that end, the administration announced it will...
It wasn't long after my little boy was born, about ten years ago, at the age of 25, that I found out that I was adopted. I knew a lot of people that were adopted...
In North Carolina this week, Officer Tim Purdy was dispatched to a high school. He was trying to find an autistic, possibly suicidal boy that had wandered away from his school. The boy also had...
When you live in a stronghold of religion surrounded by faithful churchgoers, faith healers or loyal Bar mitzvah party throwers, it may be difficult?to come up with effective ways to let people know you side...
There are a number of things I wish to address about the current "bathroom controversy."
1. The President did not issue an Executive Order.
That's what I keep seeing everyone post about. The U.S. Department of Justice...
Our judicial branch is getting quite the workout these days.
The same federal court in Hawaii that blocked the second attempt at a Muslim travel ban blocked a third attempt.
Lawyers are also taking on President Donald...
My granddaughter will be five years old in December. Then in February, my niece will turn five as well. My family had nothing but boys for 15 years, and so the arrival of these two precious...
I stumbled across this video on Facebook in a parenting/homeschooling group. To say the least, it makes a?tremendous point that I believe a lot of people are missing when we talk about the education system....
