Michael Writes

I’m admittedly a fan of Jennifer Hudson.
I loved her on "American Idol" and was amazed by her theatrical debut in Dreamgirls.  That she has now lost her mother, brother and 7 year old nephew to murder just brings home the fact that in this day and age, no one is safe anymore.
Murder is a terrible [...]

I love my dog.
Cooper, or "Coop" as we’ve taken to calling him, will be eight weeks old tomorrow, making him two months old by human standards.  I decided yesterday that this must be the onset of the dog version of those terrible twos I’ve heard so much about with human children.
For the first time [...]

I still believe that people are good at heart.  Despite what the news media would have us believe - it is no coincidence that the standard motto is ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ - people want good things for others just as much as they want good things for themselves.
My recent skin cancer scare led [...]

I didn’t mention it to anyone prior to my recent dermatologist visit, but there was reason to believe the mole I had removed may have been malignant.  Biopsy is not a popular word to me; this isn’t the first time I’ve been asked to submit to one and given my track record it wouldn’t [...]

It doesn’t take much to get me talking about poverty.  As a frugal living advocate for many years, the idea that millions of people around the world are starving to death while countless others are throwing away food because they don’t like it is enough to make me lose my appetite.
While there is no [...]