Life - simple but, always complicated!!

# 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...

Why are so many families breaking apart ? ? Link: - Why are so many families are breaking apart ?? Why are so many families breaking apart—and is social media making it even harder to heal?       Across America, parent-child estrangement is on the rise, with nearly one in four adults now cut off from a close family member. Laura, a single mom known online as "Doormat Mom," shares how her youngest daughter walked away after building a new life overseas. Kristen, a licensed therapist, explains why she chose to go "no contact" with her own mother—and why she believes not every relationship should be saved. April, a mother of four, opens up about losing her daughter to a cycle of hurt she says started long before her time, while her mother, Karen, says the blame being thrown at her is both unfair and incomplete. Dr. Phil breaks down the shifting cultural norms, the toxic messages spreading on social media , and the hard conversations families must have if th...

Most NATO Members Won’t Join Iran Operation, Trump Says: Link   MOST NATO MEMBERS Are we to be surprised?  Draw your own conclusions.  !! Comparing Donald Trump’s foreign policy to an inexperienced NFL head coach involves analyzing a leadership style that favors disruption, personal negotiation, and transactional "wins" over established procedures, conventional preparation, and strategic, long-term building. Disruption vs. Systemic Approach: An inexperienced coach often dismantles an existing team system to implement their own, regardless of the previous success of that system. Similarly, Trump's "America First" foreign policy dismantled or pulled support from traditional alliances like NATO and international compacts (Paris Agreement, Iran deal) that had been the foundation of US diplomacy, favoring a harder, often unilateral approach. Transactionality vs. Development: An inexperienced coach often prioritizes trading for "names...

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 ...