We run across certain people in our lives who make a lasting impact on us. Sometimes this impact can be great and other times it can be small; yet both have significance to us. Those who impact us greatly are usually obvious and have a life-altering influence on us. However,
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Reading Sucks!
I never much liked reading books or stories. As far back as I can remember, reading was something I viewed as laborious and absent any sort of enjoyment. Sure, I’d read the Sunday comics or an article in a rock magazine – if it happened to be about a band
Continue readingThanksgiving: Eating Turkey or Crow
As I was taking my son, who is currently 15, back to his mother the other morning, we were talking about relatively pointless topics as we usually do on those early morning rides before work and school – both of us trying to shake off the sleep from the night
Continue readingNew Legislation to Ban Fast Food in America
While this headline is completely false, it would actually make more sense than the gun control narrative being pushed in the United States because the number one cause of death in America, according to the CDC, is Heart Disease. I don’t care to get down into the weeds of the
Continue readingDo Ethics and Service Exist Anymore?
ethical adj. pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to ethics. being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct or practice, esp. the standards of a profession. Whatever happened to the importance of this word in relation to providing a service in
Continue readingA Black White Supremacist?
“Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist” This was a headline that came across my newsfeed this morning. Feel free to read the article here, but if you do, try and take it in with a new perspective; don’t let it rile you up emotionally and
Continue readingDivorce in America
What if the government forced you to turn over a generous portion of your paycheck to someone else? What if this money that has been taken away from you and forcefully given to this other person left them with little need to ever work; even if they were perfectly capable
Continue readingTraditional vs. Modern (Social Justice) Definitions
My, how times have changed; or have they really? Maybe it’s just because there is so much more media attention these days with, not only the traditional media sources (i.e. newspapers, magazines, radio and television), but now with the vast reaches of the internet where these same media sources have
Continue readingSurviving Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks won’t kill you, but sometimes they are bad enough that you might wish you were dead. I was eighteen, happy and optimistic about the life ahead of me. I was an otherwise normal and healthy young man with no history of any physical, mental or emotional issues up to
Continue readingLabeling and Name-calling
More and more these days there is a surge in labeling and name-calling between those of opposing views; mostly in a clear attempt to shut down the other person (or group) and silence them. Take, for example, the recent term, “white privilege.” By inferring, as part of an argument, that
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