In honor of Military Family month..... I thought I would give my perspective of a military brat... and only other brats can truly appreciate all of the fun times we had! Military families experience a lifestyle that no one else can understand..... once you cross through the gates of a military installation you are now speaking "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot". You can recite the phonetic alphabet like the best of them. (that is the language spoken over radio transmissions)

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Well, I have to say that I don't deal with this every day. Still, things had to be done at a Dallas hospital for a procedure I only get every few years. As much as the complex keeps changing, this writer had to make some adjustments with a new parking configuration that didn't exist two years ago.

So I parked in a parking garage a few blocks from where I needed to go, only to take a shuttle to the hospital stop. I was under the impression there was only one shuttle...

No matter what city you travel to in the state of Texas, you will find road construction. It's seemingly endless. You might think that some of us are sentenced to having permanent construction zones the way we operate here.

Go to any place in Texas. Dallas. Fort Worth. Houston. Austin. San Antonio. Lubbock. Amarillo. El Paso. Go to any of them, and you will see some kind of new work in progress, nearing completion, or in the design stage. ...

There's still a place for Bill O'Reilly on television. So he won't be on Fox News Channel anymore. Fine. He's made some mistakes and taken some serious missteps, all the while experiencing success with what, until recently, had been cable television's number one program. Okay, then. Let's forgive and forget all that's happened and let's move on. Let him have his space. Now, hopefully, if he's apologized and had asked for forgiveness, then he'll get his marbles together...

1 Corinthians 4:20 - For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. - When the apostle Paul wrote this he was trying to establish a church in a city called Corinth, that was located in the country of Greece. I think the point Paul is trying to make here is that the kingdom of God is not just an idea, a philosophy or something to be talked about, but an actual existing thing with power that was available to the people of Corinth. It's the same thing for us today. Often we forget that...