Do you remember Nat ‘King’ Cole’s hit song, Looking Back Over My Life? For no particular reason, I was thinking about that song the other day. Well, on second thought, maybe there was a particular reason. You see, it’s been said that when you’re in the final stages of leaving this earth you do look [...]
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Looking Back
Posted in Giving thanks, Life, Opinions, Personal, Volunteerism on February 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To the plodders
Posted in Human behavior, Life, Media, Opinions, People, Philosophy, Volunteerism on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you read the newspapers or watch television, you might just get the impression that the world is full of really good people or really bad people. There are people we admire and say, “Wow, isn’t he or she fantastic.” There are people we feel sadly for and say something like, “Oh, isn’t that too [...]
Those damned “briefings”
Posted in Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Media, My Beloved Country, Opinions, Personal, President Obama, Volunteerism on November 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Republican candidates for President all have one thing in common…they don’t have a clue regarding the overall job of President of the United States. The very same thing can be said about Barack Obama. All of these folks…Cain, Romney, Perry, Paul, Santorum, Bachmann, etc…don’t understand that should they assume the office, the second thing [...]
Doctors, hospitals, and me
Posted in Appointments, Hospitals, Laziness, People, Personal, Philosophy, Racism, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Surgery, Technology, Trust, Values, Volunteerism on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not certain for whom or which I have the greatest distaste. Is it doctors, those pompous, arrogant, cocksure practitioners of what they call medicine? Or perhaps it’s the hospitals where, if you are in the emergency room with anything short of a heart attack or a body covered in blood, you are treated as [...]
Simplistic e-mails don’t cut the mustard!
Posted in Human behavior, Opinions, Personal, Philosophy, Values, Volunteerism on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Day in and day out I received e-mails regarding how America is helping other countries at the expense of our own homeless, our senior citizens, our children in need of adoption, our veterans, and other groups. Initially, I tend to empathize with these concerns. We have, in fact, spent billions on a couple of wars, [...]
Honoring those who serve
Posted in Giving thanks, History, My Beloved Country, Opinions, Personal, Philosophy, Volunteerism on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
And when he gets to Heaven To Saint Peter he will tell: “One more Marine reporting, Sir! I’ve done my time in Hell.” It’s called the Guadalcanal epitaph. It’s been modified over the years and adopted by many people in many professions; however, no one will ever know except those old men who were there, [...]
Volunteerism: Let’s Just Say ‘Yes’
Posted in Giving thanks, Human behavior, Life, Love, Nostalgia, Opinions, People, Personal, Volunteerism on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When someone says, “What goes around comes around,” they’re often referring to something that has less than positive connotation. “He’ll get his,” or “She’ll get hers,” usually reflects something negative that has been intentionally or unintentionally done to the speaker. Truth be told, life doesn’t work that way. There are some people who go [...]
