by mmooney | Jul 29, 2022 | The Friday Message
I vividly remember watching Archie Bunker in All in the Family beginning in college and stretching nearly 10 years to 1980. Archie was a bigot toward a very diverse group of individuals; Blacks, Hispanics, gays, hippies, Jews, Asians, Catholics, women’s libbers...
by mmooney | Jul 22, 2022 | The Friday Message
I hope you have had a chance to watch the Ted Lasso series. Ted was a football coach in the mid west with one very minor conference championship to his credit. Ted is hired to be the football coach of a team in England that plays football only it is not the American...
by mmooney | Jul 16, 2022 | The Friday Message
I learned to play golf with Ed, my father. It was not unusual to find us playing on Sunday when many of my friends and extended family were in Church. Ed always maintained that inside the church was not the only place to worship and give thanks. The golf course...
by mmooney | Jul 8, 2022 | The Friday Message
I lament the inaction on climate change, the frightening decisions being handed down by the Supreme Court, unwillingness to do anything meaningful about gun violence, Politicians still successfully running on the “big lie”, white supremacy rearing its ugly head in...
by mmooney | Jul 1, 2022 | The Friday Message
In a cement cave under the stairs in our Boise House, we had stored the girls doll collections and lots of other memorabilia. They were well protected and after 25 years a discussion about them brought Karen to pull out the stash for the grand girls. The space is an...
