Category: Social Issues

Parenting Social Issues

“That’s It?” becomes “That’s It!” for my daughter after Frances McDormand’s Oscar Speech

Parenting Social Issues

Education On All Levels Must be Part of the #MeToo Movement

Parenting Social Issues Travel

Reliving the Dads 4 Kesem Hadrian’s Wall Hike, Loving My Community, and The Iris Awards

Musings Parenting Social Issues

Daughters, Sons, and a Trump Presidency

Musings Social Issues

Facing A Trump Presidency: Finding Hope in Rocky and Nathan Bedford Forrest

Marvel Studios Launches Hero Acts to Raise Money for Save the Children

Tamir Rice’s Mother Awarded $6 million: Was it enough?

Parenting Social Issues

Talking to My Children About the Violent World in Which They Live

Parenting Social Issues

How a Friendship Between a Christian Boy and a Muslim Boy Gives Me Hope

A Civilized Discussion on Gun Control Needs to Happen Now

Parenting Social Issues

My Response to the State of the World’s Fathers Report

Parenting Social Issues

Poorest Children in Urban Areas are at Least Twice as Likely to Die Before Their 5th Birthday: What you can do about it

The NFL Fumbled in Dealing with Ray Rice and Domestic Violence

276 Nigerian Girls were Abducted while we read about the Kardashians, Bieber, and the NFL Draft

Dancing in Paris
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Stephen King said in an interview to Goodreads, “There’s a saying—’Write what you know.’ It’s bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.” I look at that quote often for inspiration when trying to figure out what my next topic will be. I […]
Paying Respects to the Marquis de Lafayette in Paris
I love all things related to the Revolutionary War, and while in Paris, I had to visit one of France’s special connections to the early stages of the United States. Because of my love for American history, I traveled to the Picpus Cemetery to pay respects to the Marquis de Lafayette. Many heroes came out […]
Lost and Found in Türkiye
I returned to my hotel after a long day of strolling along the busy streets of Istanbul. I was exhausted, but ready to look through my photos and begin the editing process. My trip to Turkey wasn’t merely a trip to photograph major sites, but also a lifelong dream. Plus, I am working on a […]
Visiting the House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus
In the late 1700s, a German nun named Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) said she had a vision of the Virgin Mary and her final home here on earth. The nun described the home in detail as well as the house’s location, even though she had never visited Ephesus, Turkey. Sister Anne Catherine’s description of the […]

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