The Security Freeze: Locking Down your Credit

I called it "Bad Day at Big Rock". It was the day my computer crashed and someone stole my purse from my car. I made a police report, cancelled my credit cards, re-keyed my locks, and replaced my driver's license. Thanks to the Geek Squad, the computer was up and running again. But, how would I know that a year later, I'd still feel the repercussions...

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Meet The Neeleys: Pat and Gina

After a high powered career, who would have ever thought that one of my favorite activities in my retirement would be watching television cooking shows. Paula Deen, Ina Garten, Gida De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay became good friends. We hung out together and traveled the world through a variety of tasty dishes. I didn't realize something...

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The World of Fan Fiction: Harry Potter Lives Again

When I finally realized that J. K. Rowling probably wouldn’t be writing any more Harry Potter books, it took me awhile to learn that Harry Potter would live again. An introduction to the ever growing FanFiction.net opened up new worlds, among them 526,085 entries in the Harry Potter section alone with many of them full-length novels. Fan fiction...

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The Conservative Bubble

Most weekends, I watch Up With Chris Hayes on MSNBC early on both Saturdays and Sundays. On a recent show, one of the topics discussed was "the Conservative Bubble" which lead me to post this blog. The guests included Republicans Josh Barro of Bloomberg.com, Linda Bair, former Chairwoman, FDIC, and Joe Weisenthal of Businessinsider.com....

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The "Catholic Vote" Wants Social Justice

According to a poll released Monday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, most U.S. Catholics think the church should focus more on social justice and helping the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion. The 2012 American Values Survey finding on Catholics goes against the focus of many U.S. Catholic bishops,...

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Religion and Political Views

  A survey taken between September 13 and September 30, before the presidential debates, and involving 3,003 respondents, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent gives us some significant information on the link between religion and political views. Here are some of the finding...

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Halloween: Time for Horror History

Humans beware. It's the Halloween season of ghosts, goulds, and goblins. Witches, black cats and screams through the night cause our hearts to pound and our teeth to chatter. Hollywood surrounds us with supernatural beings that assail, afflict and torture humans and cause dreadful mishaps, even death.  Follow along with...

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