For 2023, New Year’s resolutions are out – and life-changing revolutions are in. It’s amazing the way a one-letter change in the middle of a word can make a world of difference in the promises for we make to ourselves for the new year. Typical New Year’s resolutions are for ...

One year from today, if you and I were having a discussion what will your life be like? What will you be doing? What will your relationships be like? How will your health be? How will your financial health be? What will you have accomplished in 2023? We can’t control everything. No one ...

I can remember when I used to long for a special gift or two for Christmas. Growing up, I would see commercials for toys on TV, or I would find seemingly amazing items in the glossy pages of a catalogue. There were years when I was sure I couldn’t live without some of those things. In an ...

Growing up, Christmas was a special time. I have five brothers. We each got one large gift from Santa and a couple of smaller gifts from our parents. One of those gifts was always socks or underwear. Because we had eight people in our family the number of gifts around the Christmas tree was ...

Every Christmas season, American families watch the official lighting of the White House tree on national television. However, a few times along the way, this great American tradition almost became extinct. Our 14th President, Franklin Pierce, was the first chief executive to display a ...

Lame-duck sessions of Congress are often regarded with an indifference befitting an afterthought, the tidying up of mostly minor matters. The current session, however, could begin rehabilitating the government’s reputation by, with a single bipartisan stroke, righting two glaring wrongs that ...