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Wow! President Barak Obama now has the keys to the oval office, and Malia and Sasha are running all over their new house with all the secret doors and chambers and ghosts and history. It just makes me smile. Would that we could get carpenters, painters and movers to work as quickly as they did in this transition. In with the new and out with the old, and they aren’t kidding around! I just...

For the Obama Inaugural address http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_obama_text . The world looks on and we now have our 44th President in a country that is considerably younger than the rest of the world. Yet, we are still the brave, the strong, the freedom loving people with dreams and goals, visions and hopes still waiting to be fulfilled. What should we be doing...

More than 25 years ago someone told me I should never burn the bridges I’ve crossed in life because I never know when I may have to make a U-turn and cross back over that same bridge.I never gave that statement much thought back then but the older I got, I began to realize how true that statement really is. You never know whose path you may cross in life that can help you along the way. You...

When I worked in television news, we always had a segment of the newscast to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the year. Although I'm not working in news these days, I still have some thoughts on the stories I saw and read during 2008. Here are my picks for those stories that were interesting and even weird to some degree: 1) A Beverly Hills doctor faces accusations that he...