If you had the opportunity to help rectify a national disgrace, at no cost to you and with very little effort, wouldn’t you take that opportunity?  A charity with its heart firmly in the right place, Cars Helping Veterans allows you to do just that through car donations that will greatly benefit our veterans of […]

Although justified in the name of human rights, our nation’s Civil War tore entire families asunder and left many casualties.   In order to help our country begin to heal from its self-inflicted wounds, many communities across the country set aside a day to honor those who had fallen in the Civil War.  Aptly named Decoration […]

Searching for a used car?  Don’t fall prey to a scam that is rampant on Craigslist, the popular network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements. The opportunity to advertise products and services for free has made Craigslist a highly desirable marketplace for everything from real estate to electronics, toys, collectibles, and jobs.  Because […]

For a society that put men on the moon and connected the entire world with a little invention called the Internet, our progress has only gone so far; we still cling tightly to our traditions.  Superstition in all its guises represents one of those traditions.  If you’re saying, “Not me!” you may want to examine […]

Have you ever watched the tide roll in from sea to shore?  This event occurs daily and, for those of us fortunate enough to reside or vacation in proximity to a shore area, it is an occurrence that we have all observed countless times.  Gradually, almost imperceptibly, what once was a sandy or rocky beach […]

Judgment Day will occur one year from this past Friday on Saturday May 21, 2011. Most people have been falsely told that no one can know when Christ returns…this is not true; the Bible clearly says that true Christians WILL know in advance the time when Christ returns.  In I Thessalonians 5:1 we read “But of […]

Have you ever had the experience in which you’d met a person for the first time and felt as if you had known him or her before?  Here in the States, we deem this a form of psychic phenomenon; the French call such occurrences deja vu.   No matter what you choose to call it, the […]

Don your crash helmet. Check your rear view.  Rev the engine under the hood of that sleek purring jewel.  The flag goes down, the crowd roars, adrenaline shoots through your veins at light speed as you take that first turn, your peripheral vision a rush of bleeding, screaming color.  If you’ve ever wanted to experience […]

We’ve all heard the expression “you can’t judge a book by its cover.”  And, I think that most of us would consider that axiom generally to be true.  Appearances can be and often are deceiving, like the wolf in sheep’s clothing in Aesop’s fable.  Yet, every day each one of us makes judgments based largely […]

“Curiosity killed the cat” is a time-honored proverb meant as a warning that, if you investigate things too often or too deeply, you could very well wind up in harm’s way.  One of the earliest forms of this adage dates back to William Shakespeare’s performance in Every Man in His Humor, a play written by Ben […]