R U Acting Like a Baby?

You SHOULD be!

I have a big, healthy grandson who is 4 months old. He laughs, he cries and manages to do all the things that a four month old baby is expected to do. He doesn’t cry much, so when he does, you know that there is something that needs attention! There is one thing that does NOT go unnoticed! When he is hungry, his crying is more consistent and more persuasive than at any other time for any other reason!! He is serious about feeding...

It was midnight and he was feeling sorry for himself. Silently, he was asking himself, “Why do I have to be here for so long? Why do I have to be here at all?” This was his third time to be admitted to Shriner’s Hospital and at age 12, he was not enjoying his stay there. Each time before, he had been there for several months while they performed surgery on his bad leg. He knew that it wouldn’t be any different this time.

I know what...

It Ain’t Over

You flip a switch and the light comes flooding into the room. Oh, how we take it for granted. It just happens. What nobody seems to remember is that a few short years ago, there was no such thing as electricity. Thomas Edison tried some 10,000 times before his experiment finally worked and the light bulb came to life! His struggles rarely enter our minds as we flip the switch to turn on the light. His persistence is what makes that little tiny illumination in your...

Are You Afraid of Skeletons?

Halloween is here! People will dress up as some character or idea or the figment of someone else’s imagination or even some scary, mutilated, mangled and maimed being in order to celebrate something, but they don’t know what, or to scare the children in the neighborhood and/or the children that still live inside the adult bodies that live in the neighborhood! Parents will take their toddlers to the homes of people that they don’t really like in...

“It takes a long time to get a gate!”

A good friend of mine tells of an older man who lived in a nice house with shutters on either side of the windows and a white fence that surrounded the property. His curvy driveway was bordered by well-manicured grass and shrubs, and at the end of the driveway hung a gate that could be closed electronically at night for security. It could be the picture you would see on a postcard or in a magazine portraying the ‘good life’!
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