Posted in anger, attitude, awareness, commitment, communication, control, emotions, expectations, Frustration, health, observations, power, relationships, respect, safety, well-being on Jul 24th, 2009
It is important to have boundaries in relationships to keep them healthy. Communication about expectations is important to find balance.
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Posted in abuse, anger, attitude, Business, career, communication, disappointments, emotions, encouragement, expectations, failure, family, friendship, Frustration, Heart, help, Impact, learning, life, love, mental and physical health, observations, of connections, personal development, relationships, respect, restlessness, expectations, callings, sensitivity, unhappiness on Jun 14th, 2009
Now that title hits people where they live, don’t ya think? Human beings just don’t tolerate being taken for granted very well. It is a reactionary thing…no one wants to find themselves being used and abused. When someone takes another person for granted they are assuming alot. They are also not being sensitive to [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2009
James von Brunn is the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC yesterday. He is in the custody of the authorities, in a hospital, in serious condition from the wounds he received when he allegedly stormed into the museum with a 22 caliber rifle, shooting and killing a museum security guard, by the name [...]
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Posted in accomplishments, Advocating for special needs, Business, career, celebrity, charitable organizations, children, coaching, commitment, communication, compassion, competition, confidence, culture, Dreams, Education, emotions, encouragement, failure, Faith, Fame, family, finances, friendship, Frustration, Fun, future, giving, goals, help, hopes, Impact, inspiration, kids, law enforcement, leadership, learning, life, loneliness, loss, mental and physical health, mentoring, Models, MONEY, observations, of connections, Opportunities, organizations for special needs, parenting, personal development, poverty, power, relationships, religion, responsibility, school, service, special needs, success, support, talent, teens, Uncategorized, values on May 3rd, 2009
It has been becoming difficult for me to quietly sit back and not scream my frustration with people in a position of power who are not standing up for youth at risk of failure. Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a mentor, a friend, social worker, counselor, tutor, a member of clergy, member of [...]
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Posted in addiction, Beauty, birth, celebrity, children, communication, custody fight, death, disease, domestic violence, emotions, Fame, family, future, health, hospital, illness, legal, life, love, media, medical, mom, mother, news, observations, of connections, opinion, parenting, sickness, support, violence on Apr 28th, 2009
Over the weekend a special visit was ordered and allowed by a judge; it was a mother and child reunion between Farrah Fawcett and her 24 year old son, Redmond O’Neal. Farrah, as many know, has been battling anal cancer for quite some time. She has recently had a reoccurence with the cancer. She was hospitalized because [...]
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Posted in abortion, attitude, baby, death, emotions, Faith, family, future, government, Impact, life, medical, murder, news, opinion, politics, pregnancy, religion, respect on Mar 10th, 2009
Today, President Obama has reversed a ban on the funds for stem cell research on embryos. This ban had been in place for the last eight and a half years…President Bush put that ban in place to stop research on embryos because of his moral belief that destroying embryos to do the research violates the [...]
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Posted in abuse, death, emotions, family, Frustration, government, grief, hopes, horror, Impact, leadership, life, loss, loyalty, media, mental and physical health, military, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, parenting, Patriotism, politics, protect, publicity, relationships, Remembering, respect, sadness, service, stress, support on Feb 27th, 2009
There is a debate brewing about whether news media should have access to photograph the coffins of returning military men and women, killed in the line of duty, when their bodies are returned to Dover Air Force Base. There is strong controversy about whether this should be allowed or not. In 1991, President George H. Bush [...]
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Posted in accomplishments, attitude, coaching, communication, denial, disaster, Dreams, emotions, encouragement, failure, Faith, family, Fear, finances, friendship, Frustration, future, goals, help, hopes, inspiration, life, loss, news, observations, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, relationships, self doubt, spiritual, success, support, trauma, values on Feb 25th, 2009
I have been observing alot of situations in the news and in the events that happen around me…I’ve come to the conclusion that the secret in overcoming any challenges or events in life has to be in deciding not to let any circumstances or event define the rest of your life. I think a [...]
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Posted in abuse, anger, children, crime, death, depression, divorce, emotions, encouragement, family, fathers, finances, friendship, Frustration, grief, health, help, husband, ideas, Impact, life, loss, love, medical, mental and physical health, mom, mother, murder, news, observations, opinion, pain and misery, protect, relationships, sadness, suicidal, suicide, Suicide prevention, support, trauma, violence on Jan 30th, 2009
Ok, I am going to rant a bit for a minute. Twice this week the news has hit us with two terrible stories about families that self-destructed through murder-suicide. Two families that were destroyed. One family in particular left a suicide note allegedly saying that the reason they were dead was because both the [...]
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Posted in children, crime, culture, death, Education, emotions, entertainment, failure, family, friendship, grief, health, Heart, help, Impact, law enforcement, legal, life, loss, meaning of life, mental and physical health, murder, news, of connections, opinion, pain and misery, Passing Away, relationships, Remembering, respect, sadness, suicide, teens, the impact factor, violence, well-being on Nov 22nd, 2008
I remember back when i was in high school, back in the 80′s, we had a class on social issues. In that class we discussed high profile situations in our society; which underscored how desensitized our society was becoming to people in pain and misery. There was a case of a woman who [...]
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