THE ADVENT SEASON: a metaphysical interpretation of Christmas Faith, Peace, Love, Joy ORDER BOOKLET Order your downloadable version of the 2023 Christmas Booklet, “The Sweetest Christmas” at this link. FAITH: WEEK 1 – Part 1 ADVENT: the season of “coming.” Many Christian traditions recognize the four weeks prior to Christmas as […]
Advent Season The Meaning of Christmas An Introduction Did you know there are 14 religious holidays during December? With deep respect and love, I acknowledge all these great spiritual traditions. But as Mark Twain said, “Write about what you know about.” And so over the next four weeks I will be talking about Christmas. It […]
As the date September 11 approaches every year, we are gain reminded, “Never Forget.” Well, I am not sure exactly what I am supposed to “never forget.”
It’s rather difficult to reflect on 71 years, especially when only 20 of those years have been digitized. But I am glad I did this even with some holes in the crazy history. I came up with a new name….. therubbadrummachiefmasterwaterskifanatichusbandfatherpops That’s the only way to cover 71 years. I hope your 71 years have […]
FOUR DAYS ON AMERICA: #4 July 4, 2023 I still think America is a great place because I know there are at least 165,000,000 good people here who live each day with a kind heart. People like President Jimmy Carter…. who, after leaving the White House, founded the Carter Center and has done more […]
If you are not sure that America is a great place, then ask yourself these simple questions and you will realize why I still think so. Did you go to sleep last night in a nice bed in a comfortable house, probably with air conditioning and heat? Did you drive your car to work and […]
FOUR DAYS ON AMERICA: July 2, 2023. (NOTE: Be sure to watch the video at the end. Thanks. ) I still think the United States is a great place because we have accomplished great things in 250 years. We built a democracy, a grand experiment, which is still operating, despite the many threats, foreign and […]
FOUR DAYS ON AMERICA: July 1, 2023. I still think the United States is a great place because of these words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of […]
CM THOR: the facts started TKD 1972 – joined ATA in 1974 opened first academy 1975 awards / championships: Hall of Fame 2021 Physician Assistant (PA) in surgery for 30 years and Director of Hospital Surgery department for the last 7 years. Family: two amazing sons and 5 grandchildren Things I love doing: Teaching TKD […]
CM Harvey-Stauber – the facts Born: 1961 1973 started Taekwondo Instructors: Finis Shelnutt, H.U. Lee 1975 1st degree 1977: youngest person (16) to certify as instructor 1978 first female to open commercial academy 1981: […]