Slavery, it’s still happening in this country; in fact it’s happening across every nation. Don’t think that just because we have entered the 21st century slavery still doesn’t exist. It absolutely does. All that’s changed is who is enslaved. Oxford [...]
December 30, 2013
Freedom by Friday
If you’re the kind of person who always has the right answer in Final Jeopardy… or you always bring home the jackpot at trivia night down at your local watering hole… or you’ve been banned from playing Trivial Pursuit with [...]
Happy Holidays my friend and welcome back. Details on your special Christmas gift follow! And so that time of year is upon us once again when everyone says to you, “Where did a whole year go?!” Now, while the question [...]
December 25, 2013
Easy Street
I originally wanted to wait until the New Year to write this post because I wanted you to have a recent experience to draw from. But this post is bursting out of me and I simply can’t hold off writing [...]
December 23, 2013
Freedom by Friday
If you love food and drink (and really, who doesn’t?) you should know one very important thing: we are in a golden age of food-love. Thanks to celebrity chefs such as Wolfgang Puck, Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay and the [...]
A week until Christmas?! These year-end holidays have crept up on me one too many times! I certainly don’t have everybody’s gift bought yet, let alone wrapped! Over the next six days I will have to scramble to get my [...]
December 18, 2013
Easy Street
Knowing what has happened in our economy over the last five years it’s hard to imagine how anyone has not only survived but profited from it. But long time readers know that’s exactly what’s happened to a small fraction of [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve had to serve on a jury before: that colored envelope showed up in your mail box and told you that your services as a juror were needed. Sigh. Didn’t I just get one of these [...]
How’s your Christmas shopping going? Got everyone on your list a gift yet? Buying gifts can put a lot of extra stress on people this time of year. It’s so hard to come up with good gift ideas, especially for [...]
December 11, 2013
Easy Street
A lot has been written about the gap between the wealthy and the poor in this country. You probably hear weekly from a news source that the rich are getting richer and the rest… are getting poorer. The stability of [...]
December 9, 2013
Freedom by Friday