Tuesday cannot come soon enough.

Is it just me or has this campaign season been the most unbearable campaign season of all time?  I think it has been decidedly more unbearable because of Facebook.  Facebook has become a more powerful delivery system of brutal character blows than any attack television ads, because we know the person placing the advertisement. Facebook friends [...]

What should we take away from Sandy?

Let's face it - the name Sandy will for many decades be a sour one for the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy's wrath.  Yet even as we remember the devastation and the effect of Sandy on our lives, we will as a nation soon move on from the immediate horror of it.  That [...]

I sat at the virgin table…

Tonight I went with my niece Emilie and my daughter Sarah to see Thunder from Down Under at the Dakota Magic Casino.  Sarah purchased the tickets for Emilie's 21st birthday and like the good aunt I am I said I would go along to help celebrate.  Sarah also gave Emilie 21 dollars so that she would [...]

I am not your ordinary spunky chick…

Do you know what happens when a painfully shy kid who was picked on grows up and acquires the tools to fight back?  You get an advocate who feels a moral imperative to stick up for what is right.  You get someone who rallies against bullying when she sees it.  You get someone who isn't afraid to stick [...]