As a kid, I didn't understand much about the celebration of Easter.  I was mainly interested in my Easter basket.  For as long as I could remember I had a sturdy white Easter basket.

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an oath of loyalty to the national flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892. The Pledge has been modified four times since then, with the most recent change adding the words "under God" in 1954.

"If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.

“Some people!” snorted a man standing behind me in the long line at the grocery store. “You would think the manager would pay attention and open another line,” said another woman. I looked to the front of the line to see what the hold up was and saw a well-dressed, young woman, trying to get the machine to accept her credit card. No matter how many times she swiped it, the machine kept rejecting it.