In 2009, Herbert and Catherine Schaible lost their 2-year-old son, Kent, to bacterial pneumonia—a condition they refused to let a doctor treat, insisting on using only prayer to heal him. Last week, their second son died. He, too, failed to receive any potentially life-saving medical care.
Today was "one of those days" as a radio d.j. that, thankfully, don't come along too often.
Following the horrific events that unfolded in Boston yesterday, it is was difficult trying to balance the normal levity of a morning show combined with the gravity of a national tragedy.
Things travel fast on the information superhighway (the internet) and the days of the 24-hour news cycle tend to make us discard information as quickly as we get it.
Every once in a while though, something grabs the attention and tugs at our very base humanity, for better or worse, and gets spread rapidly far and wide.
The term coined is "gone viral." This is an example that I stumble
Reading to a child is essential to their growth, and most children's books address similar topics of sharing, accepting who you are and eating your vegetables. We found some gems from the children's literature department, though, that made us pause and say WHAT?!?!
When Aubrey Ireland left for college she had a good relationship with her parents. They had always supported her interest in music and acting and offered to pay her tuition to the University of Cincinnati's prestigious College-Conservatory of Music, even though she had received scholarships from other schools.
Rebecca Sardoni doesn't deny that she entered her nine-year-old's school bus to complain about her daughter being bullied by four of her fellow students.
But it's what happened next that is subject to dispute.
In today's mad world of movies, where it seems every movie is either a re-hash, a re-boot or some brand of nonsense filled with explosions, there comes a movie like The Odd Life of Timothy Green. It's billed as a 'feel-good movie' so, being the good parents these guys are, they decided to take their two boys see it. What they didn't expect was the ending would make their two small boys cry. So, li