by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 10, 2018 | Issues to Care About
Whether black or white, male or female . . . no matter. We have all realized that if our mother is angry, we all suffer. Now, this blog isn’t about anti-motherhood, far from it. Usually, mom had every right to be mad based on a variety of precipitous situations. We...
by Thomas F Daniels | Jun 3, 2018 | Coffee Talk
Franklin Roosevelt said in his 1932 Inaugural Address as the Great Depression was crippling our country, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” I am not sure how to interpret those eight words, but I am happy that the American people took them to heart and...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 27, 2018 | Coffee Talk
We all have heard someone say, perhaps even ourselves, “That’s not the way I think” or possibly, “I just can’t understand it any other way.” Pastor Glenn McIntosh at the Renaissance Unity Church in Warren, Michigan made a thoughtful point concerning our ability to...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 20, 2018 | Issues to Care About
This well-known phrase is often assigned to Patrick Henry in his 1799 speech urging against dissenting factions that could have torn apart the fragile union of the United States of America. The phrase, however, existed long before Henry uttered those words as it was...
by Thomas F Daniels | May 14, 2018 | Coffee Talk
GAG ME WITH A SPOON: A Valley girl phrase used as an exclamation of disgust Over the years, my good friend Denny McMahon and I would “disgust” each other by texting the name of or a phrase from a song that could “gag” us. We have had a lot of fun with this trying to...