HAPPY NEW YEAR MARIAH LAID AN EGG

photo by Disney / ABC Television Group

Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve performance Did go off with a hitch.  For minutes too long, she was unable to get the music out.  Was it that the lip-sync wasn't synced?  Her mike pack wasn't working?  Carey couldn't reach the notes?  I don't know, we don't know, but -- the show basically went on.  And so will 2017!     news        

Principle in the type:  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light . . . "   Charles Dickens 

MARSHA, MARSHA, MARSHA!

photo by Loren Javier

Attack on Americana!   In Studio City, California, "an elderly woman who lives in a home made famous by 'The Brady Bunch"  television show scared  "off burglars who targeted the house in the middle of the night."   Scary!  I don't know if Alice could have pulled this off?      story

Principle in the type:  "Go live your absence-of-emotion life somewhere else, because the rest of the world, --you're here to be moved or else you're just a drone.  You're here to care about someone, you're here to have feelings."      Ted Melfi

AFTER HELL

photo by Dennis Skley

Now 18 years old, Anthony Sukto was stabbed by his father and left for dead as an 8 year-old, immediately following the stabbing death of his mother.  That part of the story is too horrifying to dwell on.   Sukto survived, is well - mentally and emotionally  - and an example to others for sure.  " 'Every time I would think of my dad, I would think of hate," says Anthony. "the only way I could find peace and love within myself was to forgive my father.' "    story          

Principle in the type:  "The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. . . . Only forgiveness heals."    Thomas S. Monson