Archive for the ‘family’ Category

• How much is love worth?

  Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

  Recently I read an article about a couple who spent over three thousand dollars for surgery for their six month old puppy who had made a meal out of some cds. I know that there are families with children that have no health insurance or some lacking meals. It may seem shallow to [...]

• What really makes a father?

  Sunday, June 20th, 2010

  On this day when we celebrate Father’s day, some may wonder what makes a good dad. At different times of our lives the answer may be varied as our own life experiences shape us. At this late stage of my life when I have raised my own kids, I have a deep feeling [...]

• Lavish gift does not a good father make

  Sunday, June 13th, 2010

  Martin Bashsir while interviewing P Diddy on his $350,000 automobile gift to his sixteen year old son, was met with the answer that he could give his kid what ever he wanted to. Now that was not the question. The question was how appropriate was this gift?
   
  As a single parent who often bought [...]

• A City steeped in mourning

  Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

  It has happen again. In less than a week a young life has been cut short. Amber Dubois’s body has been found a year after she went missing. Amber’s family tried to do all the right things to bring her home. They had hired rescue dogs to track her. The dogs had tracked her [...]

• Time to pay the piper

  Thursday, March 4th, 2010

  Regrettably Chelsea King’s body was found Tuesday afternoon in Lake Hodges. My heartfelt wishes go out to the family. The community which had searched in hopes of bring her home to the family that loved her were heartbroken at finding this amazing young woman thrown away in a muddy grave LIKE TRASH. Today [...]