Some years ago, during the late 1960s, my younger sister, who at the time was attending UCLA's law school, was part of a project that took her to one of California's state prisons for men.She said she saw why she…
It’s referred to as the “Empty Nest Syndrome” - the kids leave home and the parents, well, let’s get real, here, Mom doesn’t know what to do with herself.Those mothers who still have the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom…
’Twas Art Linkletter who let it be known that “kids say the darndest things.” On this Martin Luther King Jr.. holiday weekend, Linkletter's classification brings me to think about a darndest and how it evolved into an Oprah Winfrey “aha” moment. Just what…
This may well turn out to be the best story of 2013. While I bear the burden of not giving the new year a chance to unfold, the story of the year I'm going with is the family that gathered…
The young lady on the Cleveland RTA bus plain ol’ wasn’t up to obeying what the driver told her to do. When he finally decked her, yes, an upper-cut to the jaw, she was still being defiant and yelling that…
I’m not quite sure why so many parents want to believe today’s kids are different. Now, if they were claiming kids are fatter than they were a few years ago, that’s a position with supports.According to research, almost 60% of…
Times are tough and some folks recognize that their everyday spending habits need to be reigned in. It sounded as though the woman was saying something about the economy was in trouble. She was strolling down a grocery aisle pushing…