Promise Me, Dad – Book Review of Joe Biden’s Book. Losing a child is every parent’s nightmare. In his book, Promise Me, Dad, Joe Biden recounts the last year of Beau Biden’s life. I chose the audiobook, and I’m so glad I did. Joe Biden narrated the book himself. As I listened, It ripped me from my […]
Compassion
Thou Shalt Not Judge – Really?
Regardless of Our Best Intentions, We All Judge Others When I came home sobbing because all the kids on the bus were chanting “Great Big Gobs of Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts,” Mom always responded with the same words: “Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged!” It was the perfect chant to bully a kid with the […]
A Fallen Soldier – The Long Journey Home
Another Fallen Soldier – America Weeps I remember those days like it was only yesterday. How does a nineteen-year-old kid deal with the loss of a great friend? He was another fallen soldier in the ill-fated war in Vietnam. This young man was a classmate and was engaged to one of my dearest friends. We’d grown […]