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LET IT START WITH ME. Give me the courage to do the right things and the wisdom to know what the right things are. I want to preserve our America and be able to pass it on to future generations, but those that we pass it on to must understand our values in order to preserve our country and way of life. It does take a village and a lot of help from those around us to have success in…..
LIFE IS FULL OF DREAMS, fulfilled and unfulfilled. As we go through life we have many challenges. How we handle these challenges determines who we are. In my book MILES FROM HOME I talk about how lonely I was when I was staying with my grandfather on the farm. It was a difficult time in my life and I dreamed of having someone to love me. In my mind or my dreams I could see me with different girls that…..
An article in the August 16th, 2015, editorial section of my local newspaper, the “NDN”, written by a gentleman named Thomas Hughes, could have been written by me. I must share it with you. Patriotism is a word seldom heard in our culture anymore. Unfortunately, our love for America has changed over the years, which has even effected its definition. Noah Webster’s “ An American Dictionary of the English Language “ of 1828 defines patriotism as “love of one’s country;…..
As I write these stories I realize its been 5 years since I’ve blogged. I hope to blog longer this time and maybe do a better job. My thought processes currently tell me not a lot of progress has been made in the reforms I hoped would begin by now. There does not seem to be the will to tackle our real problems. This is not good for America. Let us keep doing our acts of Kindness toward each other…..
23 EAST Years before the recent downturn in our nation’s economy, I talked to others about the ethics of corporate America—about financial mismanagement and greed. Having observed our growing problems well before the nation began to crumble in the fall of 2008, I wanted to do something. Specifically, I wanted to know how other Americans felt about our country. Was I the only one who believed this country needed reform? From Maryland to California, and from Minnesota to Florida, did…..
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