The Rose – More Than Meets The Eye

While talking with women and friends in all walks of life, secrets are shared and stories told. Some of them involve assault, that ugly word that we avoid discussing. When statistics say that one in three women (some say one in five women) have endured sexual assault we can assume that there are several with …

Craven Fear and Compliance

For how long will you allow your rights to be disregarded?

Rosa Parks Moment? Or Simple Compliance?

Well we’ve certainly had a lot of fun talking about Starbucks. After listening to the call placed to the police, After watching the interview of the two men arrested, After reading the (short) interview with the manager, After learning that loitering became an issue at this location and policy was enacted one year earlier to …

The 5th Wave – A book review.

I read _The Fifth Wave_ this week; A book I wanted to complete before seeing the movie. It was prose and science fiction in one book. I've never read a book quite like it. The characters are developed well and I bonded with a couple of them even while waiting to get a good grasp …

I am no bird. No net ensnares me.

This may be one of my favorite quotes in the world. And it's so hard to choose just one. Being in a very authoritarian marriage, where our church preached something called "Spiritual Authority", a concept backed up by many biblical scriptures, A woman was to submit to her husband whenever there was an impasse in …

Trump vs Kelly

I stand by Fox's M. Kelly, and I liked her questions. The left is going to hammer those same points in campaign ads, and sound bytes of Trump saying a woman would look beautiful on her knees will play so often - we will hear them in our sleep. Especially if he ends up running …

The Sting of an Insect, Blind With Rage

I have the right to dress in a white sheet and preach white supremacy, but I don't. I have the right to create art that desecrates the image of Christ and his disciples, but I don't. I have the right to do a lot of things in this country - and I will defend the …

“That’s Why I Call America a Sharia Compliant State.”

  Listen to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's words on the link below. They are also written out directly beneath the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmZ0Qmqn3Wo "Now how similar is this to the American Declaration of Independence which declares that all men, meaning men and women, were created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which - among …

~The Illusion of Freedom in America~ Are we a “shining city on a hill”, or an aquarium?

Here is a beautiful quote from Ronald Reagan in regards to opportunity in America. Sadly, the vision - the dream, is becoming a thing of the past and I fear that it will become nothing more than a story we tell our grandchildren. The story of what America used to be. "I, in my own …

George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

I thought instead of sharing only my own heart this Thanksgiving, I would also share the heart of our nation's beloved first president.  Something struck me right away, as I began to read this document - this document that someone had the presence of mind to preserve - no doubt lovingly. It struck me that both Houses …