Category Archives: Life Lessons
Thousands attend funeral of the 4 Oakland police officers slain last week …some 19,000 law-enforcement officers from coast to coast gathered along with grateful community members at the Oracle Arena in Oakland for a final send-off for their brothers in blue. All four veteran officers died Saturday when a wanted parolee, 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon, opened [...]
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But few would go as far as Megan Swanston, who waited until after her death to get back at her three daughters for trying to throw her out of her home. Instead of sharing her £20,000 estate between them, it emerged yesterday that she changed her [...]
She refuses to let me say goodbye and invites me to visit her again. This morning I still wanted to visit her again, when I heard, on the radio, that the life of this greatness was over.
From the Newsweek cover story on Billy Graham To everything there is a season, says the author of Ecclesiastes, and for Billy Graham this is the season of coping with the toll of time…. Yet rather than simply withdrawing into the shadows to enjoy a few richly deserved quiet years with his wife and family, Graham believes he may have been called to a last mission: to soldier on by faith, praying and pondering and sharing what he has come to see and feel and think in the twilight of his life.
Deadly legacy of a Goon Michael’s legacy from his overpowering parent was simply an unresolved resentment which, however, he was determined to come to terms with before he died…. ‘He had been there: starred in the movies, married the young women, driven the fast cars, taken the drugs, drunk the wine, made all the cash, spent the cash and let down all those people who had ever really cared for him.’
Pickled Corpse Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel…. ….the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
Who knew that Lee Marvin received a Purple Heart for wounds received during the battle for Saipan in June 1944? Barbara Mikelson tells us that he was wounded in his buttocks by fire which severed his sciatic nerve and that Marvin, private first class in the Marines is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
From the first issue of Playboy to appear on Chicago newsstands in 1953 right up to the latest clippings on his current reality show, “The Girls Next Door,” no trace of Mr. Hefner’s storied adventures will be lost to posterity…. Scully’s right when he says that not many women think that the world is a better place because of Playboy or “the smug, selfish ethic it has always purveyed” Scully concludes: All of us have our share of faults and sins to account for.
Still 55,000 children die each year, more than half are less than a year old and the great majority die in hospitals We can’t always prevent someone from dying, but we can create a better situation,” said Dr. Linda Siegel, a pediatric critical care and palliative care expert at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City. For example, she said, a child can die with monitors screeching and a code team present, shocking their heart, trying to revive them, or a child can die with a parent holding them, the room lights low and soft music playing in the background.
There are people that won’t know what to say to you so they won’t say anything…. Some fear that by meeting our gaze they will catch something they can’t overcome.
