May 25, 2013

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Spell Check Your Spell Check

Feel Good Friday: Spell Check Your Spell Check

I discovered we cannot be too reliant with our “Spell check” features on any of our electronic devices.  For example, “Spell check” does not always like where we place commas.  Yet, the lack of a comma or even an ill-placed comma can make a dramatic difference with the subject matter.  Here’s what I mean: Goat cheese salad [...]

Parent Alert

Parent Alert

Parents of teenagers and college students beware.  There is a new form of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA) making its way through the club scene.  It is being packaged as a powder under the non-threatening sweat name of “Molly” and the catch phrase is “It’s a kinder-safer way to get high.”  Yet an increase of MDMA-related [...]

Savannah Smiling

Savannah Smiling

Below is a “Must read” article by Bryan Llenas, Published May 17, 2013 for Fox News Latino: “Ricardo Cerezo, the 44-year-old head of household, quit his job in management consulting in 2010 to take care of his daughter, Savannah, who had to stay home with severe bipolar disorder. A professional in helping companies in distress, [...]

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Feel Good Friday: Livin’ On A Prayer

It’s confession time.  Have you ever belted out a tune when you thought you were alone?  Maybe in your car pretending you are talking on a hands-free cellular phone or in the shower where anyone can sound like Steven Tyler or Beyoncé.  How about this…Would you sing a song at a gas station if a [...]

Graduation-No Prayer

Graduation = No Prayer

It’s that time of year again as students who have spent the last 12 years of their life prepare to transition from high school into “the real world”.   Caps, gowns, graduation practice and rehearsals…the official banning of anything Christian…wait what?  It seems every year during the graduation season, organizations such as Freedom From Religion Foundation [...]

We Have the Technology

We Have the Technology

In place of guns and masks, a cybercrime organization used laptops and the Internet to pull-off one of the largest 21st century versions of cyber-robbery.  Moving swift and smooth, the organization worked its way from the computer systems of international corporations to the streets of New York City, with the defendants fanning out across Manhattan [...]

Happy Mother's Day

Feel Good Friday: Happy Mother’s Day

This Sunday is Mother’s Day and traditionally Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.  When my Mom was still alive I used to show my appreciation to her with a card, a gift, a bouquet of flowers, or a restaurant brunch. When our children [...]

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In Search of the Moral Compass

Have we completely lost our moral compass?  You be the judge: In Columbus, Texas, track officials met to discuss the reaction of the winning 4 x 100 meter high school relay squad.  “Excessive celebration” was the ruling that stripped the young men of their qualifying time that would have taken them into the state championship [...]

The Conundrum

The Conundrum

Worldwide hatred for Christianity continues to exist and I am not sure why.  Christianity is the only religion where the one that is worshiped is the one who made the sacrifice for the believers and not the other way around.  To top it off, He made this sacrifice because of His love for everyone.  Still [...]

Disney Does It Again

Feel Good Friday: Disney Does It Again

Alright Disneyland fans, this “Feel Good Friday” blog is going to have you jumping for joy.  Move over 7-Eleven stores and Denny’s Restaurants, Disney will celebrate the start of the summer season by keeping three theme parks open for 24 hours straight on May 24th.  The Magic Kingdom Park in Florida, along with Disneyland Park [...]