My Dad

“Good fathers do three things: They provide, they nurture, and they guide” — Author Unknown   Growing up my dad was a hard man to understand. By this I didn’t truly understand what he was teaching us until I had moved out and living by myself did I finally understand what exactly he had taught…

Through A Veteran’s Eyes

In Will Smith’s theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air TV series he states “My life got flipped-turned upside down” lately this is how my life has been. 3 years ago I had the rug pulled out from underneath me. I had been a subcontractor for 8 years in an area that I…

Election 2016

In 1992 Ross Perot made his famous “Giant Sucking Sound” phrase, had he made the same phrase 24 years later he would be describing how horrible this election is going. We are in a period of where we are between a rock and a hard place. We are no longer allowed to pick among the…

Religion

Some months ago I was asked “Do you believe in God?” My response to that question has always been that same; I am spiritual, I believe that there is a higher power whether you call it God, Allah, Buddha, the little gray aliens in the spaceship, Everybody is looking toward a high power no matter…

Generations

I NOW understand how elders always complain about how the next generation will not understand how hard they had it before them. I think about how my grandparents who were born before 1920 could actually view the world as well as the different generations in it. They didn’t have telephones, cell phones, televisions, Ipad, Ianything,…