Like the majority of the people and families I know, I’m working class American, stretching my dollars as far as I can to accommodate higher fuel, food and utility costs with a paycheck that isn’t growing at all, let alone at a rate to keep pace with the increases.  I’m not complaining – I consider [...]

I really am a Motorcycle Mechanic. Back in the days before the Women’s Liberation Movement, I was working in my father’s diesel garage, cleaning parts and putting together – or taking apart – the things that I could physically manage. At home, I worked along side my brother, building motorcycles. I went to school for [...]

Child of Mine, so sweet – so bad,
Can’t count the times you’ve made me mad!
Can’t count the times you’ve made me smile…
And now we walk you down the aisle.
 
Child of Mine, so precious still
We watch you grow and fly off your hill
To soar above the lessons learned,
To share a new life with a love [...]

This is an odd title for an article being written today, right? Pirates taking people hostage in the high seas near the Horn of Africa. We’re battling with several Middle Eastern countries at the same time, unemployment is strangling our communities and Detroit is under siege by both automakers and the Federal Government.
The flailing economy, [...]

I’ve just finished this novel set in 1948 postwar Louisianna. Ms. Leigh’s powerful handling of such an emotionally charged set of issues is nothing short of masterful. She captured the torment and terror and courage of the breast cancer survivor, but maybe just as importantly, she also painted a captivating picture of those people who [...]

Thanks to a brand new show on network television, millions of American’s are going to be very savvy about non-verbal communications. LIE TO ME will reveal all those subtle, and not so subtle, mannerisms that supposedly indicate truth or falsehood. As a writer, I’ll take some notes so that my characters can be proven guilty [...]

With Valentine’s Day just weeks away, let’s take a look at long-term love, shall we? Today, I turn the blog over to the intelligent and ever-charming, Joe Cuenco.
Joe Cuenco is the author of “Married For 5,000 Years,” a forthcoming research book that analyzes marriage presenting sociological, cultural and environmental factors to determine whether long-term marriage [...]

FLIGHT TO FREEDOM is one of those books that you won’t ever forget. Wilson has tackled the powerful issue of spouse abuse in a riveting format that leaves you cheering on a killer, even as you can’t seem to stop yourself from turning page after page on this journey into darkness and back again into [...]

BE IT TWISTED OR STRAIGHT, WIDE OR NARROW,
THE FOOTPRINT I LEAVE WILL IMPACT TOMORROW
THE SMILE I SHARE, THE HUG THAT I GIVE
CAN CHANGE DARK DISPAIR INTO NEW WILL TO LIVE.
 
THE WOMAN WHOSE CHILD WON’T LIVE THE YEAR
CAN’T IMAGINE SUCH PAIN, CAN’T MANAGE THE FEAR
BUT SOMEHOW THE PEOPLE WHO CROSS HER HARD PATH
MAKE IT EASIER, MORE [...]

Over 200,000 people will be told they have lung cancer this year.  It is the leading cause of death from cancer in both men and women; more people die of lung cancer every year than from colon, prostate and breast cancers combined.  Lung cancer makes up 12% of all cancer cases and causes 29% of [...]