Category Archives: growing up
A Father and a few words
fa·ther /ˈfɑðər/ [fah-ther] –noun 1. a male parent. 2. a father-in-law, stepfather, or adoptive father. 3. any male ancestor, esp. the founder of a race, family, or line; progenitor. 4. a man who exercises paternal care over other persons; paternal … Continue reading
Posted in dad, Family, friendship, growing up, Life, Love, prayer
Tagged father, hurt, life lesson, Love, school, words
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How Blessed am I!
It has been a few days, well weeks for me and the blog. I have not really been able to post. To much going on, and to little time. But today I thought I would give it a try. Over … Continue reading
Posted in Family, growing up, Life, Love, sister(s), youth
Tagged Africa, boys, charity, Family, God, helping hand, youth
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From the mouth of ______?
I always love when I come across the emails or stories of kid and what they say, I remember the show, kids say the darndest things, man was it funny, and yes, kids do say the darndest things. In my … Continue reading
The magic of yesterdays
Image via Wikipedia It is hard to believe that it is July already, it seems that Christmas was just last week, and now here we are into the Summer of 2010. How time really does fly. As of late I … Continue reading
Posted in brother(s), dad, Family, growing up, Life, mom, sister(s), youth
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A conservative look at the school system
With school being out, and so much in the news about so many school districts having to cut back or close schools I thought I would offer some help to them. 1. As for cutting the over all budget follow … Continue reading
Posted in catholic, Conservative Catholics, Family, Freedom, growing up, history, Media, selfhelp, social justice, youth
Tagged administrators, American, arbitration, area, Arithmetic, army, atmosphere, british, cafes, caretakers, catholic, children, classes, cost, crises, curriculum, curriculums, districts, dollar, dollars, education, elimination, environment, evaluations, example, fathers, fire, gardens, generation, Gores, government, graduates, guardians, halls, horizon, ideas, Inconvenient, innovations, Instead, involvement, Jewish, lies, Life, Local, math, mindset, monkey, nation, needs, news, parent, parents, purification, Remove, replacement, Return, revolution, self, sill, socialistic, steps, student, students, system, teachers, Test, township, tree, truth, verses, world, youth
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Roadside Attractions
Today I spent a little time looking at a website that list different roadside attractions through out the country, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/. It was like a walk down memory lane. I remember when I was younger visiting some of the places listed. … Continue reading
Posted in growing up, youth
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Snapshots
Friday was a good day for me, I had time to catch up on some of my reading. I subscribe to 3 different Catholic newspapers and 3 different magazines, two Catholic and one political. The problem is time, when do … Continue reading
Posted in Called by God, catholic, church, faith, growing up, prayer, youth
Tagged Africa, america, areas, Asia, career, category, catholic, catholics, church, Cynical, discernment, edition, Europe, faith, figures, friend, Friends, grandparent, growth, hardships, house, human, kids, Life, magazines, money, needs, news, newspapers, Notice, numbers, Oceania, Oceanic, Overall, paper, parents, parish, percentages, period, places, prayer, Priest, purpose, response, skills, Snapshot, snapshots, soul, statements, Statistical, Vatican, Visitor, wife, wishes, word, world, Yearbook, youngster
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The gift of grudge
With Mothers Day upon us, it is time to reflect on our mother, both earthly and those that are no longer with us. The other day I posted a blog about having parents, or better yet, the blog was tong … Continue reading
Posted in brother(s), dad, death, Family, forgiveness, friendship, growing up, Life, Love, mom, prayer, sister(s)
Tagged actions, area, argument, attention, bases, blog, Both, brothers, card, certificate, cheek, children, confession, confessions, connection, conversation, conversations, cooperation, creators, death, deeper, door, earth, fact, friend, Gift, gifts, graduation, heart, india, lesson, Life, longer, memory, moment, moments, moms, Nature, neighbor, nephew, Once, pain, parent, parents, parish, person, plants, politics, prayer, prayers, Relationship, relationships, roots, salt, self, siblings, sister, sisters, Some, soul, times, truth, week, words
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Ernie and Detroit
Yesterday the City of Detroit mourned the loss of a great man, Ernie Harwell, the voice of summer. Ernie was the broadcast announcer for the Detroit Tigers for years. His voice on the radio meant that summer was here. As … Continue reading
Posted in death, faith, growing up, Life, Love, prayer, radio
Tagged Also, announcer, articles, ball, Baseball, birds, broadcaster, Christian, compassion, Detroit, Detroiters, earth, emphasis, Ernie, example, faith, father, flowers, Harwell, husband, legacy, Life, Link, Michigan, poem, purpose, Radio, regrets, reports, road, Solomon, Some, song, soul, summer, team, Tigers, trademark, turtle, voice, winter, world
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My little heaven
Image via Wikipedia Today I spent the day doing yard work. As a youth I use to hate doing yard work, I never saw the point in it. All the cutting and trimming and planting. All the weeding and seeding. … Continue reading
Posted in Called by God, education, faith, growing up, Life, Love, selfhelp, youth
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The STATIC Shop
View Point: Paul 