Life - simple but, always complicated!!

AJS III  - a 68 year old man !! A lot of very good life packed into 68 years, thank you for being along for a few , many, or lots lots of those years !! 🎂 🎈 The journey ( like all of ours) has been happy, sad, smooth, rough, some despair, lots of hope, full of wealth earned, wealth lost, lots of fun, more friends, & forever grateful !! Some of us  on the evening of March 11, 2026   ( wherever) @ 7PM EST, 6 PM CST, 5pm MST, 4PM PST hoisted a drink of our choice, beer, wine, bourbon, martini, tea, coffee, old fashioned, to my parents Pat & Tony, and thanked them for giving me the blessed life I have! Thank you.   Btw, my Mom made many of those Birthday cakes & if you tasted her baking sweets, you most likely had a second slice. 😃  & those of my Fisher mates, I only found out at Phil Kahlers funeral service that Ramona Santorelli (SJFC classmate) & I were born on the same day. Ramona a...

Article 5 The Fifth Commandment THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT You shall not kill.54 You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill: and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. 2258 "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." He Didn’t Kill . Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway. By  Elizabeth Vartkessian Ms. Vartkessian has investigated death penalty cases on behalf of defendants for over two decades Sonny Burton is not a killer. No one disputes this. Yet he has spent nearly half his life on death row. At age 75, he spends most of ...

# 17. I was always afraid to do so, especially in high school.😀 #24 Mom always defeated me when I challenged her to tennis. 😉 RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON /DAUGHTER  1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. ✔️  2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs. ( Unless you're older than 60) 3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king. 👍 🤴  4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer. Blackjack Stand when your hand is 12-16 when the dealer has 2-6.  5. Request the late check-out. Why not ? 6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it. Children do better, than adults.  7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard. 💯  8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas. Without question. 9. Play with passion or don’t play at all. On the floor for loose balls 🏀,  run full speed to 1sr base on ground balls, .. 10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye. ✔️  11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.  New one, but good...

My family, my extended family, &  I, seemed to be snake bitten in the early 2000 years with cancer. In April 2000, my mother was diagnosed with leukemia. Mom battled but she died in March of 2001. At the beginning of 2002 in January, my father-in-law Stu Alexander was diagnosed with melanoma. Stu died six months later in June. Also, I began enduring some health problems of my own during the beginning of 2002, rheumatoid arthritis and some mental health issues. They were difficult back then, and have proven to be more than one time episodes. 🙏 🙏🏿  Okay, we thought those years are behind us, but in March of 2003 my youngest daughter, Lauren, 13, was diagnosed with a cancer and a tumor growth on her left hip. It was going to require radiation, surgery, and possibly chemotherapy. Lauren went to daily radiation treatments after school, driven by myself or my wife, sometimes a friend, until June, when she had plastic surgery and the tumor removed from her left hip...

Perseverance helped me battle and defeat depression multiple times. That perseverance was built upon faith. We all need perseverance at different times over our lifetimes. Besides the people listed below, there are many others to remember who persevered during tough times; the Apollo 13 crew and the NASA team in Houston,  Jackie Robinson, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Billie Jean King, Madeleine Albright, and   Marie Curie whose most famous quote on perseverance is:  " Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves " . Sam Darnold was on 5 NFL teams, let go by 4 of them before he won a Super Bowl as starting QB.  It took John Wooden coached basketball for 11 years in high school, and 18 years in college before he won the first of 10 national championships at UCLA.  Brock Purdy was the last NFL draft selection in 2022, a few years later the was a starting QB in Super B...

The Pope’s Man Arrives in New York In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.? By Paul Elie February 6, 2026 In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.? By  Paul Elie February 6, 2026 Photograph by Charly Triballeau / AFP / Getty Ignazio Silone’s novel “Bread and Wine” tells the story of Pietro Spina, a socialist and revolutionary who is a wanted man in Fascist Italy, and who, in order to elude capture, disguises himself as a village priest in the Abruzzo countryside. The book, which was published in 1936, is partly a parable about survival and resistance: The villagers awake one morning to find anti-government slogans scrawled on the church steps. They’re alarmed, fearing that the authorities will crack down on them all until the person who did it comes forward. But Spina encourages them to see the graffiti as an act of consc...