And yet another young adult hits the brick wall of consequences and turns herself in to authorities for another incident related to addictions. Lindsay Lohan was involved in a hit-and-run on Memorial Day weekend (let’s call that Point A) and went into a rehabilitation facility (let’s call that Point R) thus avoiding the investigating police…
I am one of the few and maybe even the proud who can say: I’ve never read a Harry Potter book. I’ve also never watched Lord of the Rings. (OK, everyone who is reading this can pick themselves up off the floor where they fainted!) I do not want to portray any criticism of the…
The carnival has been posted at Mere Orthodoxy, and I have an entry there. Check it out!
I’ve read two articles this week about violence in the workplace and nurses. From my viewpoint that looks through 30 years of nursing, it’s like reading articles about sexual harassment. My response is, “DUH!” The posterior part of my anatomy was first pinched during my second year in nursing school. I was embarrassed, angry, and…
The apostle Paul wrote to his young student, Timothy, “…Don’t let anyone look down on you…do not neglect your gift…” (1 Timothy 4:12,14 NIV) Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson was a child from east Texas who grew to become the First Lady of the most powerful nation in the world. She was known as “Lady Bird”…
“Doctors are now medicating unhappiness,” said [Dr. Ronald] Dworkin. “Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives.”… “In a study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were…
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. – C. S….
As events continue to unfold and are played and replayed and replayed (you get the idea!) in this young woman’s life, I am immediately struck that she is a “child”, a product of her parents and ultimately her own choices. I watched some of the video from her interview with Larry King and what an…