It's still the way with children today, even in 2006, but there is hope. It was in the sixties. We lived, (us kids) in one of the richest communities of the United States, a narrow strip of a village along Lake Saint Claire in Michigan. It was called Grosse Pointe. And it as the other Pointes boasted of ¡°Old Money... More..
At some point in everyone's life, a person needs a good friend. A friend who likes you for just the way you are. A friend who's ready, willing and able to go out and have some fun whenever you are. A friend who will look up to you, be glad to see you. A friend who will protect, defend and rescue you if ever the need arises. ... More..
Can the country survive another presidential election? Rumour has it , it could end up with Hillary Clinton vs Al Gore, not to mention a host of other contenders Kerry, Edwards, Dean, and many others. Will choosing turn Democrat against Democrat. Remember how it was in 2000 when the election became a teeth-barring war betwee... More..
Here's the short list: The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It (Hardcover) by John Miller, Michael Stone, Chris Mitchell (Editor) Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security (Hardcover) by Robert Patterson The Connection : ... More..
I am writing this article off the top of my head, so it won't have all the quotes and footnotes to support my thoughts about how "You can't trust what you read in today's mass media", but I can assure you this article will make you think! Just this week there was a poll published that claimed by the results that mo... More..
Write About What You Know, The Secret To Creating Your Best Writing What do you know? This is a good question to ask yourself if you are a fledging writer or painter or an artist of any kind. The best places you can come from (in any work for that matter) and you go to in creating your best art, is from knowing yourself and ... More..
Sometimes in our own chosen careers we feel utterly stuck. For many of us, if we don't really love our work, we look afar outside ourselves, as if out to greener pastures, longing for the work that we were tailor made for. The kind of work, where in expressing our gifted talents, we would literally play all day. Work utopia!... More..
A Sacred Truth He said he would never write stories of his childhood or of his past. Why would he want to relive all that. He was glad he was over it, the baby years, puberty, young adulthood. It all left a bad taste in his mouth. He was all for living in the now. He intended to suck the life from each moment he lived from h... More..
A young Ernest Hemingway came to Pamplona, Spain for the first time from Paris in 1923, with the San Fermin fiestas only just under way. He took away with him the exciting memories of what was then just a small home-town festival with its colors and sights and sounds, its foods and music, the street parties and dancing and i... More..
It's very pleasant that in many ways Marshall, Michigan lingers in the past. Quietly steeped in the depths of Michigan history from its earliest days of settlement, this small town of 6,941 offers its visitors not only a glimpse of the civic pride and fellowship of its 21st century residents, but also wonderful history lesso... More..
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