What does voting for Trump say about YOU in the 2020 election

What does voting for Trump say about YOU in the 2020 election

Life & Living
Exercising your privilege to vote is not something we should take lightly. It requires serious thought and reflection to grasp that casting our ballot doesn’t just determine an election, but it says a great deal about the person we are and the role model we will be for younger generations to come. Ask yourself, what does voting for Trump say about you? Casting our ballot is tied to personal perceptions about the kind of person we are – the values you instill in your family and in your children. While it’s easy to assume that voting is more about policies and economics, it’s an honest reflection of what we value and condemn, whether we realize it or not. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express…
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Long Term Care Insurance is an investment in you AND your family

Long Term Care Insurance is an investment in you AND your family

Life & Living, Youth
Early on in my married life, the subject of Long Term Care Insurance was never a conversation at the dinner table. As is common with most people today, we certainly weren’t thinking about aging – choosing to live (and spend) in the here and now rather than dwell on realities aging might bring. But the realities of aging - of becoming ill and dying – are an unavoidable part of everyone’s journey. While we ourselves might still be relatively young and healthy, those who have come before us are sadly growing older. Before long, the case for Long Term Care Insurance is profoundly staring us in the face. My grandparents were not wealthy, and truthfully, I’m not even sure such plans existed in the 1970s and 1980s, when it would…
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Driving While Black shows how often whites take traveling for granted

Driving While Black shows how often whites take traveling for granted

Information & Education, Life & Living
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, is a book penned by Dr. Gretchen Sorin, a distinguished professor at The State University of New York College at Oneonta (SUNY). I was made aware of the book’s existence in a very unlikely place – a guest article in my latest edition of MotorTrend. For those of you unaware, MotorTrend is an American automobile magazine which dates back to September 1949. My wife and I had just completed reading several informative books on race – White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. I highly recommend both. When the September issue of MotorTrend landed in my mailbox with the Driving While Black guest article, it seemed like fate was…
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News is everywhere and sometimes it’s better to stay silent

News is everywhere and sometimes it’s better to stay silent

Life & Living
News is everywhere, and its sole purpose today seems to encourage divisiveness rather than unity. Today’s societal climate is a raging sea of confusion, judgment, adversity and animosity. The information being reported - both accurately and inaccurately - is extremely impactful as we go about our daily lives, none of which are spared involvement in one way or another.   The era of definitive and esteemed experts has been replaced by the internet’s unending stream of information. It often lacks credibility and statistical proof yet remains revered by those who cannot discern between what’s factual and what’s propaganda. This unending internet stream allows individuals to find the information which best supports their feelings, claims, views, decisions and biases – maintaining ignorance rather than challenging their own beliefs and trying to…
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Audi ad shows how society cannot differentiate between good and bad

Audi ad shows how society cannot differentiate between good and bad

Life & Living, Youth
An article recently ran on CNN.com entitled, “Audi pulls 'insensitive' ad featuring girl eating banana in front of car”. It’s not often you hear of an Audi ad sparking such controversy, so I thought it was worth a click-through to the full story. It seems that over the weekend, the German luxury automaker shared a photo on social media with the caption, “Lets your heart beat faster – in every aspect” – publicizing their RS4 sports sedan. The caption wasn’t an issue but apparently the imagery was. From the NY Daily News: “The image shows a cool-looking young girl — wearing a leopard-print dress, a denim jacket, pink rounded sunglasses — eating a banana, while the wind blows her hair off her face. She’s also leaning against the grille of…
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