My Family Blog

#1: Her sweet smiles. Thanksgiving is my all-time favorite holiday. I love the festive fall decorations, I love the turkey, I love the mashed potatoes and I love cranberries from a can with the little lines on them (I know, I’m weird). But, most of all I love Thanksgiving because it’s a time for us [...]

Need a little evening entertainment while you enjoy the last few warm nights of the summer season? All you have to do is look up to spot a sight you won’t see again for another three years. Tonight’s moon is the second full moon of the month which earns it the title of ‘Blue Moon.’ [...]

Tony Scott and Family There was a tragedy in Hollywood over the weekend. Tony Scott, the director of such massive blockbusters as Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance and Crimson Tide has died. At the age of 68, the younger brother of Ridley Scott (another big Hollywood director) took his own life in [...]

Tony Scott and Family There was a tragedy in Hollywood over the weekend. Tony Scott, the director of such massive blockbusters as Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance and Crimson Tide has died. At the age of 68, the younger brother of Ridley Scott (another big Hollywood director) took his own life in [...]

Many of us complain about our country: from taxes, to politicians, to everyday injustices. But there is one very important thing we have in this country that so many of us take for granted – our freedom of speech. Today I was reminded of our first amendment rights and how fortunate we are to be [...]

Have you checked out today’s Google doodle? If you are someone who knows their way around a kitchen or just loves good food in general, then you are probably familiar with the late and much-loved Julia Child, the original television chef. Sadly, she passed away in 2004, but today would have been her 100th birthday. [...]

Helen Gurley Brown in 1964 Back before you could order a cosmo at a bar, you could buy one at a newsstand. Helen Gurley Brown, the editor and journalist who put Cosmopolitan magazine on the map as “a guide for the modern woman whom she urged to embrace sexual freedom,” has died in New York [...]

Texas A&M Thank goodness that school is still out for the summer. On Monday there was a shooting at the fairly quiet and empty Texas A&M University campus in College Station. According to reports, a shooter opened fire in an area next to the usually busy campus. When the shooting began, the university issued something [...]

Paul Ryan – Future VP? Sorry Marco Rubio, Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Rob Portman, you were not picked by republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to run alongside him in a quest for the White House. Instead that honor has gone to Paul Ryan. I’m too busy and my brain is just to full of [...]

Curiousity Rover When you think of a high tech apparatus like a space rover and the very serious world of space exploration, one usually doesn’t think funny, silly and hilarious, but this particular rover that landed on Mars? He’s got a sense of humor. On Sunday, history was made when the Curiosity Rover landed on [...]