Fran's Blog

Sixty years ago a bunch of friends were beginning their first year of High School... Months before we had all ‘graduated’ from various grade schools in the Norristown, PA area...mostly Catholic schools, some from ‘publics’, and mostly taught by habit wearing dyed in the wool  NUNS (Sisters, actua...

SO...It has been said, “The eyes are the windows of the soul”... WELL...It has been over 1 week since my cataract surgery has been completed in both eyes...NOW... I can see so clearly and wonderfully with my new lens implants...IT IS ALMOST HARD TO BELIEVE that a less than 12 minute surgical proc...

Less than a week since the massacre in Las Vegas...many are still confused and puzzled...WHAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE CARRY OUT SUCH A HEINOUS AND DISGUSTING ACT OF INHUMANITY...??? If we believe that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL then we must find reasons why someone would slaughter 58 innocent people an...

ONE NEED ONLY TO LOOK AT GOD’S CREATION TO ‘SEE’ HIM...BUT... FOR EVERY ASPECT of God’s Creation there is a counterfeit version...!!! FIRST THINGS FIRST: ONLY GOD creates from nothing...anything else is an illusion...!!! MAN CREATES energy...FROM THE SUN...created by God...!!! MAN GIVES US STARS....

IS IT A GUY THING...??? DO WE MEN seem to get blamed for almost all that is wrong with the world...??? LOOK...Even the last three devastating hurricanes that have brought catastrophic damage and loss of life imply ‘MALE’ blame...Harvey, Irma, and Maria...H I M...!!! MEN ARE ALWAYS blamed for leav...

EVERYONE WANTS TO FEEL LOVED...DON’T THEY...??? I certainly would include myself in the group that WANTS TO FEEL LOVED...BUT... THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEELINGS and LOVE...Let’s start here... FEELINGS ARE REAL...If I say, ‘I feel like crap’, you can be sure I’m not in great spirits...on...

With the recent monster hurricanes and wildfires plaguing our nation...IS GOD TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION...??? About 6 weeks ago I was diagnosed with type II diabetes...within a few days (one exactly), I developed a sudden onset of cataracts in both eyes which rendered me unable to drive and una...

I guess before you answer the question, ‘Can you forget how to love’, you must first be honest enough to admit whether or not you EVER learned how to love... First of all, LOVE is not a noun...It is a verb...something you do...!!! Is it like learning how to type, or roller skate, or ride a bicycl...

WE ARE A NATION VIRTUALLY evenly divided ideologically...YET... According to our PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE we are ‘ONE NATION UNDER GOD...INDIVISIBLE’...CAN this be so...??? THE ANSWER IS YES...If we acknowledge as a nation...OUR DEPENDENCE ON GOD...!!! Unfortunately, for decades now, we have tried to...

Just behind my favorite leather loveseat hangs an old cherished lithograph of LEE’S SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE... I am not a historian, although I love reading History, particularly CIVIL WAR HISTORY...BUT I HAVE GROWN TO APPRECIATE THE VALUE OF ‘SYMBOLS’...’SYMBOLS’, such as statues, fl...