Today happens to be the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, where millions of Jewish people and, it turns out, other “undesirables” as deemed by the Nazis, were killed without thought or morose. It’s an acknowledgment of overcoming something so heinous that there shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know what happened there. […]
There are times when certain news stories touch me more than others. The same happens with scenes in some movies. I had a period where I’d be crying all the time when I saw these things, for a few years after my dad passed away. It took a long while to gain better control over […]
How quickly things change. It was only 3 years ago that I was spending Christmas totally by myself. My wife was working out of town and couldn’t come home, my mother was sharing Christmas with others, and my grandmother had passed away months earlier. It was kind of a sad and lonely Christmas day, and […]
I’ve been pretty quiet here about some of the things that have been going on lately regarding what I’ll term diversity issues. I don’t think I need to mention the names of any cities or any individuals or any of the particular actions for anyone to know what’s been going on. Thomas Hawk via Compfight […]
Almost everyone has heard the term “tough love”. It seems to mean different things to different people, and until you’ve gone through something where you have to perform it on someone, you never really get it right. Jose Roberto V Moraes via Compfight Recently I’ve had to dole out a little bit of tough love. […]

