Live Authentically, Love extravagently, treat everyone with dignity and respect, and for yourslf and others, become the best that the God of Creation made you to be.

That is my family motto and it guides my  life and hopefully the lives of my  six children and 10 Grandchildren.

I have been a member of Beliefnet since its beginning and an active blogger in the politics and public affairs area, always with my Conservative Republican viewpoint of course.

I met my wife on Beliefnet.  (my late wife  died 5 years ago after 50 wonderful years of marriage).  We married last year  and my family expanded to 8 Children and 15 Grandchildren.  We are both senior's but live a great life of travel, family visitations, and just enjoying our lives together.  We winter in Florida in MO, a class A motorhome and spend summers in Connecticut.  Spice and humility (and caution) is added to my life in our marriage since my wife is as hard left Democrat as I am hard right Republican Conservative.