Barbara Boyer's Blog

I quite looked forward to watching HBO’s Newsroom, for reasons that I believe will become obvious soon. After a handful of shows I became more disappointed by its apparent letdown… again for reasons that I believe will become obvious soon. I was so inclined to distaste, for something I thought may have the opportunity to [...]

I quite looked forward to watching HBO’s Newsroom, for reasons that I believe will become obvious soon. After a handful of shows I became more infuriated by its apparent letdown… again for reasons that I believe will become obvious soon. I was so inclined to distaste, for something I thought may have the opportunity to [...]

(If you are a SN follower, there is a certain correlation between the Dean character and myself when it comes to God these days. Not to mention, the actor is simply fine to look at.)   I loved my Creator. I mean I really, really loved Him. We grew to be great buds over the [...]

  I was not planning on blogging today. My plan was to wait till tomorrow to continue my story, my thought process. We all know how plans work. I was so moved by some posts on the social websites about America’s response and outpouring on the Chick-fil-a event, I simply could not hold back. So [...]

  “When life throws you curve balls, which it will, having a belief in a Creator teaches you how to bend without breaking.” Barbara Boyer, Courage of Fear Trudging is such a great word. When the term was first given to me so many years ago, my mind instantly saw myself in heavy army gear [...]

  Over the past few years I have received hundreds of emails from folks asking about my blog. Mostly folks advising me how much they miss my daily writing, questioning if/when I will begin again and what made me stop. Sometimes I respond with a generic well-meaning a writer’s life, busy as it is; blogging [...]

                  Headline: "Michelle Obama dazzles New York in $42,150 diamond bracelets (and puts young jeweller on the map)" Headline: "First Lady Michelle Obama Tries To Go Undercover At TARGET In VA!" Today, as with far too many days in the past few years, I was confronted with [...]

Today I woke (good thing) then did the normal routine, pee, washed up, coffee, smoke, flipped on the computer check the sales, the headlines, the social websites and there it was everywhere… Valentine Day… Cuddles… Love… Candy… Teddy Bears… Jewelry… Couples… Yadda… Yadda… Yadda… You know? The normal, stick your finger down your throat and [...]

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. Edward Carrington, Jan. 16, 1787 Yesterday I was saddened by the social website's responses to the AZ massacre (which [...]

Today I was beside myself with some of the comments that hit the social websites in reference to the massacre yesterday in AZ. The one that hit me the hardest was a person's post on Facebook about Palin being to blame for the shooting. The hate and blame-shifting that was going on was pathetic. I [...]