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Today's Opinions

  • Try to avoid cliques

    I’m not usually candid when it comes to certain personal and deep facets about my life to my readers. However, there are some things I don’t care to share with anyone, especially when they teach a valuable lesson like this one.

    When I was in my teens and early 20s, I wanted nothing more than to simply belong. I didn’t care who accepted me, just as long as I was accepted. There were those few individuals who truly made a difference in my life and I’m blessed to have known them.

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  • Finding Joy in the Journey - From A Mother’s Heart

    There are two times during a lifetime when our loved ones really get our attention.

    Their birth and their death.

    Everything else is a journey in between those two events. This goes for all of us.

    We are all on a journey through life and uppermost in our minds is the final destination.

    Can you endure the journey because you know the destiny?

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  • Handling of Kmart money indicative of commission’s behavior

    Where in the world is the Kmart money? It is a question that commissioners and voters alike should be asking.

    When the county acquired $700,000 in proceeds from the sale of the building commissioners earmarked the money for industrial development, vowing only to use it when a prime piece of industrial property came along.

    Now nearly two years and what seems like a zillion debates later the same group has managed to spend nearly every penny.

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  • Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama in 2012?

    Last Friday afternoon, the day before Americans celebrated independence, a bombshell was dropped on the political world.  

    Sarah Palin, Republican Governor of Alaska, not only announced she would not be seeking re-election, but she also announced that she would be resigning as governor later this month, effective July 26.  The announcement stunned all political observers, and the rumors began swirling.  

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  • Holiday is over but where is the respect?

    Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson once said, “God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children. Someone has said that an ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating apples and never looking up to see where they come from.”

    This week’s story comes from something that caught my eye as I was checking my email.

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