New Years is around the corner… do you have your resolutions ready? Are there some burning issues in your heart and mind that you are waiting for January 1st to roll around to begin your journey towards achieving? Are your resolutions for the upcoming year much different than the ones you have routinely put [...]

Throughout this Christmas season, I thought to myself how much different Christmas feels this year. Not the day, but the season. How have you been feeling during the holidays? Have you felt as excited as you have in years gone by? Are you excited about the prospects of the upcoming year? Are you excited [...]

What makes you tick? What really motivates you? Is there a single thing that you can specifically pin down as the ultimate factor which can turn your entire outlook on life around at any given moment? I would imagine that we can all whittle down our many motivators down to a single, shiny motivator [...]

That time of year is arriving at breakneck speed… it’s almost time to set some New Year’s resolutions. Are you a resolution maker? Are you a person who “turns over a new leaf” each and every January 1st? Does the calendar turning over to a new year carry significance in your life? Or is [...]

At times in my life, I have thought that maybe, just maybe, all of the ideas about “how to make money utilizing the latest gimmick” had been mined and thoroughly beaten to a pulp. I’m not talking about new inventions or ideas, I’m talking about the “how to” books you see that continually appear [...]

While reading my current selection from our personal library, I ran across a provocative statement which started a convoluted thought process within my mind. While the statement was not new, it just happened to stir something inside of me the moment I read it. From the book “The Next World War” written by Grant [...]

When was the last time you had an actual “debate” involving religion? How did that work out for you? Probably just about as well as having a conversation about politics I would imagine… I would expect this from competing viewpoints because these issues are inherently volatile. However, what I am seeing more and more [...]

Last week, our local metropolitan paper’s online site featured a “Letter to the Editor” which was titled “If you voted for Obama, you can’t call yourself Catholic.” I’m sure you know the general reaction from the readership as they commented for 16 pages worth of bickering. Half were deeply incensed and felt the need [...]

Now that we understand the Liberal Agenda and the associated underlying policies, let’s take a look at the “competing” Conservative Agenda. We will focus upon the same five issues that were laid out during our discussion of the Liberal Agenda. Before we begin, I want to mention one thing… the Conservative Agenda does not [...]

As I sit here today, less than 24 hours from casting my vote in our Presidential election tomorrow, I have become apathetic. I sit here and wonder how so many of our citizens can be led so blindly as if promised treasures on earth for their vote. I am ashamed of our political process [...]