Lifestyles

• Another Murder, Another Bar of Soap

  When tragic events occur on television, people are often more titillated than disturbed. There is a degree of excitement that one experiences seeing and hearing about events involving rape, murder, and war.

• A Season Of Hope – And Battle

  For years, psychologists, educators and church leaders have warned about subversive and decadent influences on children in our society—the Internet, pornographic literature and films, violent video games, raunchy TV, and so on. It’s an old story: the more sexually perverted the entertainment, the more teenagers watch it, and the higher the ratings and the profits.

• How To Plan Your Herb Garden

  An herb garden can bring a person a lot of pleasure because there’s so many things that can be done with herbs such as herbal crafts, herbal teas and herbal seasonings

• The Top 5 Photo Tips For Scrapbookers

  By putting just a little more thought into your photos before you snap away, you can capture those special moments the way they were meant to be captured

• Patriotic Shopping

  A Number of pundits and politicians offered Americans a simple solution to the helplessness and anxiety they were feeling in the wake of the September 11 attacks: Go shopping!

• Ricky Dean Fisher’s Olympic Rant

  I’m a quitter. I’ve given up on the Olympics. Each day that the Winter Games continue, I’m thinking I like Major League Baseball more and more.

• Chasing Away the Holiday Blues

  Once again we find ourselves in the midst of the holiday season. Holidays are meant to bring joy and celebration but sometimes bring sadness and despair. Holidays can be difficult times, and this may be especially true this year because of our ongoing national crisis.

• To Life.

  We will be forced in the coming months to find a balance between our civil rights and our need for security. I, for one, hope we err on the side of the former. The best way to protect an open society is to remain one.