The Memory Secret | The Saturday Evening Post

January 25, 2016January 25, 2016 Paul Sposite Education Education, leadership, learning, Life, memory, secret, students, study

I was a grind. That was the word for it back in the day: the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A striver, a grade-hog, a worker bee — that kid — and I can see him clearly now, almost 40 years later, bent over a textbook, squinting in the glow of a … Continue reading The Memory Secret | The Saturday Evening Post

My Thoughts on the Trayvon & Zimmerman Show

July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 Paul Sposite Civil Rights, Civil Rights, conservative, Death, Family, liberal, Life, Media, news, Politics, Radio, social justice advancement, African, agenda, agendas, america, American, Americans, attention, black, Both, category, Circus, current-events, Death, decisions, demise, dependency, Different, disservice, emotions, equation, facebook, Fairytales, Florida, Helps, Hispanic, intolerance, justice, Lets, Life, media, memory, Nation, obama, outcome, policies, political agendas, politics, President, race, race category, radios, ratings, relations, rhetoric, scholarship, Self, Should, society, stop, thoughts, three, tragedy, Trayvon, truth, verdict, violence, Want, white, winners, wrong place at the wrong time, youth, Zimmerman

A lot has been said and posted concerning the Zimmerman verdict, some like and some do not. I think this will always be the case when we have a society that is trained to be polarizing. The media worked overtime to make sure the American public had a tainted view of the case. Starting with … Continue reading My Thoughts on the Trayvon & Zimmerman Show

My thoughts on Trayvon

March 30, 2012March 30, 2012 Paul Sposite Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Death, Faith, Life, Love, Media, news, Politics, youth African, america, American, Americans, angel, atmosphere, black, citizen, Cooper, crimes, Death, department, difference, dispatcher, divider, drug, Drugs, ellipsis, Eric, fact, gangster, George, hearts, Hispanic, Hispanics, History, Holder, Just, justice, lesson, Life, Look, male, Martin, member, memory, moment, MSNBC, Muhammad, narrative, Nation, news, obama, Okay, Panther, Panthers, Paul, photo, photos, President, revenge, rhetoric, sick, situation, souls, speculation, Spike, statement, stores, street, students, system, teenager, time, Trayvon, violence, vocabulary, Walgreens, white, youth, Zimmerman

Trayvon Martin Protest - Sanford (Photo credit: werthmedia) Up until now I have not posted about the Trayvon Martin case. I was waiting on facts to come out and hoping for civility. But it seems civility is lost and facts are slow to come. The murder of Trayvon is sad, the murder of any young … Continue reading My thoughts on Trayvon

The Voice of Summer: A Lenten Reflection

March 20, 2012March 20, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, History, Lent, Life, Radio, Religon Account, action, album, Baseball, birds, broadcaster, cancer, caption, detroit, Detroiter, Detroiters, didn, downtown, Dramatic, Earth, Enter, Ernie, Find, flowers, gift, gifts, Harwell, heart, hearts, kids, Last, Lenten, Life, Lulu, memories, memory, michigan, Michigander, Mitch, moments, Morrie, park, peace, poem, Radio, reflection, session, Several, Solomon, sports, summer, sunshine, Sure, temperatures, Tiger, Tigers, Tuesdays, turtle, Verse, voice, wife, winter, word, words, world, writer

For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Solomon 2:11-12 For any Michigander, Detroit Tiger Fan or just a Detroiter, you know the above, it … Continue reading The Voice of Summer: A Lenten Reflection

Frustration, and dealing with it

March 13, 2012March 13, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Education, Improvement, Life, Self, selfhelp action, activities, ambition, Attend, attention, Avoid, bike, Body, Butter, candy, children, church, contentment, customer, Death, definition, desires, destiny, disappointment, dissatisfaction, Ecclesiastes, energy, enjoyment, exasperation, fact, father, Find, food, forefront, frus, Frustration, frustrations, girl, give, goals, gusto, heart, Here, honey, instance, Just, Keep, laughter, learn, Life, manner, memory, mind, money, needs, norm, noun, passion, passions, person, player, Plural, prescription, read, Renaissance, road, romance, senses, Separate, Some, somebody, soul, soup, spouse, sugar, Tips, walk, words, workout

frustration Definition frus·tra·tion NOUN 1. dissatisfaction: a feeling of disappointment, exasperation, or weariness caused by goals being thwarted or desires unsatisfied 2. frustrating of somebody or something: an act or instance of causing somebody or something to be dissatisfied or unfulfilled 3. something that thwarts: something that blocks, thwarts, and upsets somebody all at the … Continue reading Frustration, and dealing with it

Could Boys Town work today? And other thoughts on Charity and Social Justice.

January 19, 2012January 19, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, Change, church, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, conservative, Conservative Catholics, Control, Election, Faith, Family, Founding Fathers, History, Improvement, liberal, Liberal Catholics, Life, Media, Politics, Religon, selfhelp, social justice, Tax affairs, African, Albert, Allen, america, American, Americans, Angeles, Appeal, Archbishop, Arcus, army, Arthur, article, articles, author, benevolence, Bill, Bishops, Boko, book, Both, brother, California, Call, Canterbury, Catholic, Center, Character, children, church, Citizenry, coach, coalition, college, Comment, concept, concepts, constitution, Cool, Cosby, Could, creative, Deal, Declaration, deeds, Defend, definition, depend, dependency, depressions, discussion, documents, donations, dreams, Effective, effort, efforts, Egyptian, Equal, example, extremists, fact, Faith, Faithfunder, father, fathers, Federal, Finalist, Flanagan, forces, foundation, freedom, friends, Fund, generation, generations, government, governments, great, Gross, handouts, Haram, Harold, heritage, human, independence, individuals, inspiration, January, John, justice, Kennedy, leadership, letter, Life, Link, Look, manner, Market, memory, million, Mobile, Mobilize, money, moneys, Movements, Nation, National, nature, needs, Negroes, neighbors, North, November, obligation, obligations, Occupy, oppression, organization, paperwork, path, Paul, performance, person, Philadelphia, Philanthropist, President, Principles, Prior, Private, provider, PRWEB, racism, recessions, redistribution, redistributionist, regulations, reliance, responsibilities, revolution, Richard, rights, role, salvation, Self, services, Short, Should, social, Socialism, souls, Specifics, sticks, student, study, Successful, system, talent, talks, thoughts, times, Town, treasures, True, truth, Tyranny, unit, Urgent, Vatican, victims, Walter, weapon, Weird, welfare, West, Wikipedia, Williams, words, workers, world, worth

Cover of Boys Town ‎"What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?" -- Walter Williams Williams … Continue reading Could Boys Town work today? And other thoughts on Charity and Social Justice.

American short term memory loss

February 22, 2011 Paul Sposite conservative, Election, GOP, History, liberal, Life, Media, Politics, Tax Abayomi, action, African, america, American, Americans, Anthony, articles, Azikiwe, benefits, Blogs, Budget, BusinessWeek, Carmelo, Carter, Christchurch, Civil, Commission, competition, convictions, court, CPAC, dandelionsalad, decisions, democracy, Democrats, detroit, dollars, dream, Earthquake, effort, elections, exemptions, Fair, Farruggio, free, friends, Gaddafi, Google, government, Governor, health, Hispanics, hollywood, Homos, hotair, house, hypocrites, industry, juice, justice, KNICKS, lawn, Libya, LITTLE, location, longer, Lower, Lund, members, memory, Mich, michigan, money, Muammar, Nation, needs, nerd, news, November, nwsource, nytimes, option, Partner, path, Paul, pensions, Peter, Philip, Pick, Pleas, proposals, Reagan, REMOVAL, revolution, Rick, ronald, Round, salary, salon, Same, schism, seattletimes, Self, Send, service, Snyder, social, Socialism, stand, State, Still, Supreme, system, Taxes, Taxpayer, tendency, Toward, Wisconsin, word, workers, world, York, Zealand

Image by wmrice via Flickr The American people have a tendency to forget quickly…. This past November we held local, state and national elections all over our great nation. Overwhelmingly we voted for conservatives, we told the powers that that be that we no longer wanted our government to spend our money freely, that we … Continue reading American short term memory loss

NASA… Our best investment

January 27, 2011January 27, 2011 Paul Sposite History, Life, Politics absorption, accidents, accuracy, achievements, Administrator, advancements, Aerodynamic, aircraft, ALARM, Aldrin, ambition, america, American, Americans, Americas, amusement, analysis, anniversary, Apollo, Armstrong, ARTIFICIAL, ATHLETIC, attention, babies, bacteria, ball, ballpoint, BALLS, Barack, black, Bolden, boot, brain, breast, bush, Buzz, Cairo, cancer, captain, cartridge, cases, cell, Challenger, chamber, chemical, children, civilian, Collins, components, computer, contribution, DAMAGE, Decker, defense, deficit, department, depth, detroit, devices, DIALYSIS, Digital, dimples, dinners, directive, Disorder, domination, dream, dreams, Earth, Edwin, energy, enhancement, Enterprise, environment, equipment, Excerpt, exploration, explosion, fact, Fifties, FOAM, food, FREEZE, friction, frontier, Full, furniture, garden, GETTER, goal, goals, golf, Goodyear, Google, government, heroes, HTML, Hubble, human, image, images, impact, imperfections, initiative, innovation, innovations, instrument, investment, Kennedy, Kirk, LANDMINE, LENSES, LIMBS, machines, math, measures, memory, method, methods, Michael, missions, Modern, money, Moon, Most, Muslim, NASA, Nation, Nations, nature, navigation, needs, Neil, newborn, nutrition, obama, Obamas, Olympic, park, patients, personal, Phelps, pictures, power, President, pride, prison, product, products, program, Prosthetic, protection, RADIAL, Radio, Reagan, region, relationship, relationships, REMOVAL, RESISTANT, resonance, result, road, roads, runways, SATELLITE, satellites, science, SCRATCH, SHOES, situations, SKIN, software, Space, speech, sports, stereo, STRUCTURAL, Surplus, swimsuit, SWIMSUITS, system, systems, talent, Teachers, techniques, technologies, Technology, Telescope, television, TEMPER, temperature, text, THERMOMETER, think, three, times, tools, traction, traffic, tragedy, transmitter, treatment, TYRES, ULTRASOUND, upside, users, vacuum, vehicles, version, VIRTUAL, vision, water, world

Image via Wikipedia It has been 25 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded upon lift-off, and our space program has never truly recovered. After the tragic explosion President Reagan comforted the American public but also pledged to continue with space exploration. With the second space shuttle tragedy President Bush began the process of grounding … Continue reading NASA… Our best investment

Roadside Attractions

June 18, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite Growing Up, youth action, america, attraction, attractions, bike, castles, Churches, Dearborn, fact, Ford, germany, germany. history, greatest, Greenfield, greenfield village, heaven, Henry, henry ford, History, india, Island, lane, Life, mackinac, mackinaw, mackinaw island, manor, membership, memories, memory, michigan, Nephew, park, photos, places, remarks, roadside, savvy, Sure, times, trinkets, village, youth

Today I spent a little time looking at a website that list different roadside attractions through out the country, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/. It was like a walk down memory lane. I remember when I was younger visiting some of the places listed. Sadly most are closed, but still it was nice to read about them and to … Continue reading Roadside Attractions

The gift of grudge

May 8, 2010October 6, 2010 Paul Sposite brother(s), dad, Death, Family, Forgiveness, Friendship, Growing Up, Life, Mom, Prayer actions, area, argument, attention, bases, blog, Both, brothers, card, certificate, cheek, children, confession, confessions, connection, conversation, conversations, cooperation, creators, Death, deeper, door, Earth, fact, friend, gift, gifts, graduation, heart, india, lesson, Life, longer, memory, moment, moments, moms, nature, neighbor, Nephew, Once, pain, parent, parents, parish, person, plants, politics, Prayer, prayers, relationship, relationships, roots, salt, Self, siblings, sister, sisters, Some, soul, times, truth, week, words

With Mothers Day upon us, it is time to reflect on our mother, both earthly and those that are no longer with us. The other day I posted a blog about having parents, or better yet, the blog was tong in cheek about needing to prove I had parents on my birth certificate. But it … Continue reading The gift of grudge

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