It's amazing to me how short-term memory loss effects otherwise intelligent people. As the rhetoric over troop levels in Afghanistan ratchets up even higher, can... »
My Voice by Sallie Goode!!
Saying Goodbye To An Angel
It seems like it's open season for assault and murder on women and children these days. Even though I know assault and murder are not new, it just seems to be happening with more frequency, or maybe it just seems to be more brutal than ever. Whenever there's a news report about a missing child I pray for... »
Help Me Understand
Here we go again. Another public figure caught with his "thingy" where it shouldn't have been. I realize I'm merely a woman, but I honestly want to understand. Since my early twenties I have taken a personal poll with my male friends and relatives. I wanted to understand the male fascination/obsession with sex so I had a series of questions I would... »
Love For My Mother
I've always envied my female friends for the close relationship they have with their mothers. My relationship with my mother had always been strained. We bumped heads constantly from my teen years to adulthood and seldom saw eye to eye on anything. I ached on the inside for acceptance from her, yet never seemed to get it. From... »
Accepting My Diagnosis
Accepting My Diagnosis When I was thirteen, my mother called home one day to say she had to work late and wanted me to clean the chicken she left out to thaw for dinner. She told me what to do and that it was to be done before she got home. No problem, I thought. By the time I... »
The Deception of Obama?
When I was younger I never cared about politics or our government entity; it all seemed so boring to me. I just worked, paid my taxes, voted, and let the rest take care of itself. When Clinton became president I started paying a little more attention to politics but still didn’t really understand a lot. For some... »
Is Your Word Your Bond?
My mother is the youngest of six girls and after watching what she and her sisters went through with their husbands and what both of my grandmothers went through with my grandfathers, I decided at 16 that I didn't want to get married. It just didn't seem like fun to have to follow my parent's rules for 18 years and... »
The Day We Were All One!
I've never really considered myself patriotic. As a matter of fact, the day I was sworn into the Army National Guard and again into active duty Navy, I raised my right hand with the thought that if a war broke out I would flee to another country. Being eighteen and fresh out of high school I needed a... »
Aging is a BEAST!!
Youthfulness is something we all take for granted, that is until the signs of aging start to set in. I can remember when I was a child being involved in all types of physical activities. Since I am my father's only child and he wanted a boy, he treated me like the son he never had. That meant I got to... »