The “21 on 21” ritual is a game of “Russian Roulette” – twenty-one shots of alcohol on your 21st birthday. This cultural trend has frightening and destructive implications. What should you know about “21 on 21” so that you can protect your children, or yourself, from this game’s potentially deadly consequences? Read More »

A legacy can be a wonderful thing.  Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines legacy as “A bequest, a gift by will; something received from an ancestor or predecessor.” A legacy could be property or financial assets, great literature or works of art or something more transcendental, such as a good name, a wonderful example, or a philosophy of life and how to live it. Read More »

Perhaps you have heard the saying, “If you are happy, you are not paying attention”? Look at the world around us. Billions of people are living in abject poverty. Starvation, disease and violence are bringing countless lives to a premature end. Millions are jobless, unable to provide for their families. Many more are stuck in low-paying, unfulfilling jobs, struggling under crushing debt. Hard-working people who have saved for decades are watching their life’s savings dwindle away.  Economic stress adds to pressure on relationships, while millions endure unhappy marriages or experience painful conflicts between parents and children. If you are unhappy, you are certainly not alone. As we see so much unnecessary pain in the lives of people we care about, can we think of three good reasons to be unhappy? Read More »

Zimbabwe. Iceland. Greece. Is America next? The growing weight of an overwhelming national debt combined with at least twenty lethal, economic “trigger mechanisms” has created a financial “nuclear time-bomb” for America. And, as the world just witnessed in Greece, debt can devastate a nation. Read More »

The doctor’s words hung lifeless in the air. Each of us gathered in the waiting room tried desperately to translate what our ears were hearing into coherent thoughts. All eyes stared about the room at faces that did not register the weight of this proclamation. Jackie was dead. Read More »

Secret societies such as the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, the Burschenschaft, and Opus Dei, are favorite topics of talk radio, Internet sites, books and movies.  From blockbuster movies such as “Enemy of the State” and “Angels and Demons” to “Doomsday 2012: End of Days,” from talk radio hosts such as Michael Savage and Glenn Beck to Alex Jones, society is fascinated by conspiracy theories and the clandestine organizations supposedly manipulating the masses. Read More »