“My neighbor’s son died the other day. He was a beautiful kid only twenty-one years into this world. Police and ambulance sirens blared as they raced up our street in an effort to revive him, but the sirens served only as an alarm that a life had been extinguished much too soon.” Steve Straessle, principal at Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, wrote these moving words about a young student’s death … [Read more...]

              Yvonne Mirilovich came home from work one day in January 2016 and found her mother drunk while babysitting Yvonne’s two young daughters. “I just lost it,” she said in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. “ I screamed at her. I called her a monster. She just stared at me with a blank face,” says Yvonne who is 39 and lives in Limerick, Pa. She told her mother, then 64, that she wanted her out of the house and not … [Read more...]

On any given day, 100 million Americans are taking some stimulant antidepressant, tranquilizer, or painkiller, smoking, inhaling from aerosol cans or glue bottles or self medicating with alcohol or illegal substances like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines hallucinogens, Ecstasy and other designer drugs. This was the report given by Joseph A Califano, Jr. in his groundbreaking book “High Society” published ten years ago. Since then it’s gotten worse—more drugs and more deadly … [Read more...]

Sam Walton once said, "It’s our mission to create opportunities so people can live better. We consider it our responsibility to make a positive impact in the communities we serve. “Whether it’s through the grants we provide to the thousands of organizations that share our mission or through the inspiring volunteer efforts of Walmart associates, we are passionate about helping people live better. One community at a time." Sam’s Wal-Mart stores changed the face of retailing and is number one … [Read more...]

                Life can be tough. Really tough! So how do we cope? The late Dr Scott Peck, a psychiatrist and a Christian, said, “It is only through taking responsibility and accepting the fact that life has problems that these problems can be solved.” Dr. Peck said these words and a lot more before his death from pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s disease in 2005. He is perhaps most famous for his book, “The Road less … [Read more...]