Shareable Saturday
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
Shareable Saturday
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and [...]
What choice would you make?
It only takes a moment and one wrong choice for lives to change forever. Jacquelyn Lynn’s debut novel, Choices, is now available. Driving home before dawn one morning, college student Samantha Lawrence took her eyes off the road for just a few seconds to send a text. She swerved out of her lane and hit [...]
Shareable Saturday
“In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!” - Mehmet Murat ildan
Book Review: Success Blast
Success Blast: How to Succeed, Triumph, Thrive & Skyrocket to Career & Business Success! Jack Alan Levine Great Hope Publishing, $14.95 Powerful, creative techniques to launch a new career or business or boost an existing one I left the corporate world decades ago—and never looked back—and I’m not interested in building a traditional business. Even [...]
Book Review: Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution Tucker Carlson Free Press, $28 hardcover Is the United States a ship that’s about to sink? How did the United States get to where it is today—an intensely divided country where people of differing opinions can no longer engage [...]
The Upside of Getting Knocked Down
Sometimes life knocks us to our knees. Not just once, not just twice, but over and over. When it does, we need to get up and keep going. But first, while we’re on our knees, we should pray. I’ve always said that God doesn’t care about our posture when we’re praying—what He cares about is [...]
Does Your House of Worship Need an Armed Guard?
Does your house of worship (church, synagogue, temple, mosque, etc.) need an armed guard to protect members from an active shooter? This excerpt from How to Survive an Active Shooter addresses some of the issues related to protecting houses of worship from possible attacks. It is geared primarily to organizations that do not have the budget [...]
How to Correctly Use Quotation Marks
In this Grammar Tip, we’re going to talk about the punctuation known as quotation marks. One of my pet peeves as a reader is seeing quotation marks used incorrectly. When that happens, it can be confusing and sometimes completely change the meaning of the words. First, this may seem obvious, but let’s mention it anyway. [...]
How to Use Apostrophes Correctly
An apostrophe is that punctuation mark that looks like a comma but it’s at the top of the line, not the bottom. The apostrophe has two purposes: To show possession. To replace missing letters in a word. When you use apostrophes to indicate missing letters, it’s usually in a contraction. In the context of [...]