Which one of these have you heard from your kids: There’s a monster under the bed. I’m scared I’ll have a bad dream. I don’t want to go to the first day of school. I’m homesick. If your kid has ever said any of these things to you, Debbie Glickman, founder of Fairytale Wishes Inc.,…
Occasionally, I feel compelled to make a public show of my support for an organization that is doing a bangup job of trying to improve things. Such is the case with today’s FamilyFirst pick. The site is dedicated to stopping the abuse of a downtrodden, overlooked, unappreciated, yet essential part of our existence: the shopping…
Perhaps you were watching baseball in mid-May and noticed that some of the players were using pink bats. Now what could THAT be all about?? Well, some major leaguers volunteered to swing pink Louisville Sluggers in order to bring the public awareness of breast cancer. And I’m not going to swing a pink bat, but…
It’s not something that we like to think about. But perhaps we should anyway. The fact is that we, as Americans, have grown used to buying clothing, among other items, at pricers that are ridiculously low. A shirt that cost ten bucks in 1970 can be purchased now for the same price. This while gasoline…
Today’s FamilyFirst site is one that just might bring tears to your eyes. It’s a blog from a brave lady named Sandi who was born with a congenital heart condition. It was treated in her childhood, but she knew then that the treatment wouldn’t last forever. She made it into her forties when she realized…
I can’t remember where I read about this statistic, but it involved the amount of time that an average newscast spends on negative news stories. Stories that involve murder, kidnapping, and all the bad things that happen in our world these days. It is great to have found a site on the Internet that only…
Well, it is officially the Holiday Shopping Season. Today was unofficially known as Black Friday (so named because this is the day that retailers traditionally begin making a profit and are therefore “in the black”), and if you had the courage, you hit the malls and the chain stores, and shopped till you dropped. But…