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 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 | 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 | 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, Featured
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 | 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,...
