by Average Joe | Mar 29, 2024 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Featured
Why Good Friday is Better than GoodWhy Good Friday is More Than GoodGood Friday has always been the most confusing ‘holiday’. Banks and the Post Office are open but the stock market is closed and has been every year except for two years since 1889. Some...
by Average Joe | Nov 2, 2023 | Family Matters, Featured, Work Stress
Widows to Wizards II Taxes This is part 2 of a 2-part series. Part 1 covered housing growth and its effect on widows, senior citizens, with video link. See Part 1 Here For the past 6 years we have had the joy of living in an older neighborhood. Many of the...
by Average Joe | Oct 29, 2023 | Family Matters, Featured, Work Stress
Widows to Wizards PART 1 This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Part 1 covers housing growth and its effect on widows, senior citizens, and everyone in general.Shortly after semi-retiring 6 years ago we did what many in the close-to-senior -years do when the kids have...
by Average Joe | Sep 4, 2023 | Family Matters, Featured, Work Stress
Labor Day Luck or a Miracle?This is an updated version of a true story posted on September 21, 2021. All is near exactly as written but it has a 2 years later update added at the end of part 1 just before the red line. It also has 3 paragraphs added to the story at...
by Average Joe | Jun 17, 2023 | Featured, Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Work Hard to RestSummer is here and everyone is off and running to their favorite getaway for a ‘much-needed’ vacation. Whether you are a stressed-out student in school or enslaved to your job or business we all need a REST! In this hustle and bustle...
by Average Joe | Jun 2, 2023 | Family Matters, Featured
Juror#97 Death Penalty, Part V WHEN? It is exactly 365 days since the June 3, 2022 sentence of the death penalty for Joshua Lee Burgess. His immediate verdict of guilty and sentencing by the twelve jurors in Union County North Carolina was the first in this quiet...
by Average Joe | May 20, 2023 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Featured
Casual Chance-2A sad day it is for us long-time Cleveland Browns fans as the greatest player ever, Jim Brown #32, has passed away. Since my birth in 1960 Cleveland sports has been a sick passion. Sick not only because we root for all their teams with deep hope at...
by Average Joe | Apr 6, 2023 | Family Matters, Featured, Peace Secrets
BetrayalThe best conversations (it seems) are often ones where we share past hurts that we have in common with others. It can be therapeutic to see that our real feelings cannot be easily swept underneath a carpet and we just ‘move on.’ The problem when...
by Average Joe | Sep 3, 2022 | Featured, Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Labor Day Shadows Labor Day for most is a day of celebration with a day-off relaxing, parades, and a barbecue. The day was established 20 years after the civil war, a war intended to end slavery because laborers were being treated like slaves and some were dying...
by Average Joe | Jun 19, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Featured
Juror#97 Part IV Death Penalty Yes or No?This is Part 4 of a 4-part docu-series, it started here in Part I.On June 3, 2022, Joshua Lee Burgess was sentenced to death in Union County North Carolina. It has been over 20+ years since Union County has sentenced anyone to...
by Average Joe | Jun 6, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Work Stress
Juror#97 Part III Execute Justice QuicklyOn June 2nd my wife and I made up for my missing our anniversary due to serving as Juror #97. We had a getaway in the beautiful mountains of western Carolina and took a very slow old-fashioned steam-powered train ride along...
by Average Joe | Jun 1, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters, Featured, Work Stress
Juror #97 Part 2, Collateral DamageDefinition: COLLATERAL DAMAGE – injury or harm inflicted on something other than an intended target. This is part II of a 4-part series, please read part 1 for the full story. There is no such thing as a victim-less crime...
by Average Joe | May 27, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters
Juror #97 Part 1, What Are The OddsBeing summoned for jury duty isn’t as common as one thinks. Serving as one of the twelve is even more uncommon. For the past forty years, I had somehow only been called a few times and for each, I was excused for the common...
by Average Joe | May 1, 2022 | Work Stress
Bubble BurstersDid you ever wake up excited about the day and everything is going great, then boom, one negative response from somebody bursts your bubble? You allow your moment or even the whole day to be ruined! How does one deal with people who are Bubble...
by Average Joe | Apr 16, 2022 | Family Matters
Some Things Don’t Go Together Our household has never gone a minute without our pets. The most interesting one was our Fox named Pepper. Like all our rescues our hearts were filled with making their lives and ours better than nature could provide. But,...
by Average Joe | Apr 14, 2022 | Family Matters, Work Stress
Deep Roots I have always been a deep thinker. Too often it has been a detriment to productivity as analyzing every angle creates long delays in reaching a decision. Some call it perfectionism, others procrastination. Do you find yourself stuck in one place like a...
by Average Joe | Apr 3, 2022 | Featured, Financial Security
Why I Write For Free Why do I Write for Free? I’ll save the punch lines for my detractors – 1. because nobody will pay for it. 2. The cover picture has a bench that I sat on for two hours; seated are how many people will read this. 3. All the people who...
by Average Joe | Mar 20, 2022 | Family Matters, Work Stress
Casual Chance Most events in our lives are intentionally planned unless you are one of those people that thrives on the thrill of sky diving and mountain climbing in sub-zero weather. Me, I prefer the safe routes and plan every detail of travel for business and...
by Average Joe | Mar 10, 2022 | Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Why I write long stories. Smartphones and tablets are amazing, providing information at our fingertips for nearly everything. Paper maps and memory were replaced by a GPS, pencil and paper by calculators, phone books and other memorized numbers by contact lists, and...
by Average Joe | Feb 12, 2022 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters
12 Solutions to ICD-11’s Disorders ICD-11 was the first update in over two decades to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently released edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The release was presented at World Health Assembly on...
