How Can I Reduce My Size and Lose Weight?

When I was born I weighed 5 lbs and a few ounces. My dad described me as looking like a skinned squirrel. I have changed a good bit. When I was in High School I weighed in at 135 lbs. The same was true several years later when I got married. Not so today!

• Today the scales say that my weight is 27 lbs lighter than I was 60 days ago. That sounds like a fib, but it is true.

• Here I am with my two beautiful granddaughters who think that I am pretty special even if I am overweight. When this taken, I weighed in at 285.

• I felt like an idiot for letting myself get so out of shape. I was in shape, but it was ball shaped. I needed to get some fat off of me and live to see these two through school.

• This week, I have attended two funerals of good friends of mine. I do not want that to happen to me if I can avoid it. Don't get me wrong, I am ready to go whenever my God beckons me, but as long as I am still on this revolving orb, I want to feel good.
  

• Nearly 1/2 lb. per day has left me. I feel really good except when my pants fall off. That is a great problem to have. When I wear shorts, I do not wear a belt. Not only that, but I am able to wear clothes which I had outgrown and have just been hanging around waiting for me to come back. "I'm Back"
  

Frankie says change your life and save your life. Start to lose some lbs and take a moderate walk each day for thirty minutes and you WILL see a difference. I am too blessed to be stressed.

New School Jitters?

Any reason you are nervous about going to a new school? Gracie was! She says,Never be afraid of anything, God will get you through whatever comes your way. Just think good thoughts that you will have many new peers and will do outstanding effort. Yes, you will be nervous, but you will get used to it soon.

• If your teacher isn't that nice give her a chance. Try to become friends with her or make some kind of relationship with him or her.

• Gracie suggests that if you are about to start a new school, get your mom to take a look at this.

• When I left my other school I left all my friends and ventured to another school and learning environment. But yet I still keep the old friends I had before. Don't throw them away like tonights pizza box. Still try to contact your old peers and keep in touch.

Gracie says, "always do your best and you will get to the ladder of success."

Gracie is a new contributor to this blog. She is 9 years old and recently started a new school. She wants to have her own blog , but will write a few for me to get the feel of being published. Frankie

Divorce And Children

Divorce in any nation is hurtful on all concerned. The wife, the husband and especially the children. There are statistics that indicate that in some unions, children will actually reduce the number of divorces and sometimes it has no impact on the decision to split the sheets.

• Frankie currently has four friends, all female, who are in the process, one step or another in getting a divorce. All of these ladies, all in their late 30's are angry, resentful, and worried about what their future may hold and what adjustments they will have to make.

• Studies show that marriage is the largest cause of divorce. Marriage has ruined many friendships and broken up many happy couples.

• Frankie is not suggesting that living together and not getting married is desirable and certainly not favored by him or God. The Bible speaks many times about marriage and respect for each partner.

• Pearl asked Frankie a couple of days ago if her dad still liked her mother even tho' he was leaving home to be with his girlfriend. Pearl, the answer is yes, it is very likely that he does still like your mother, but they have just fallen out of the same type of love that brought you into this world. That was a deep and honest love and the chances are that you are the most precious thing that came out of that union. Your mother and your dad both love you.

• Frankie recommends that each partner should decide that they ready and prepared to give up the life of a single person and to love their spouse as much as themselves. It has been my experience, he says, that in most successful marriages which last as long as the commitment made on the wedding day, the wife is in charge of humility. She keeps the husband and all of his testosterone in check.

Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Can The Fair Tax Really Be Fair?

The Fair Tax is Fair or can be fair if it is implemented as it has been devised by the 54 congressional authors of the bill.

My guess is that it will not be implemented at all in it's present form because it takes too much power from the government.

This is a non partisan comment. It does not apply only to Republicans or Democrats. Taxes are the foundation for the bully pulpit of the governments.

Frankie recommends that you read the book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder to get up to date on the taxes you are now paying and how you will be better off and pay only your share. Keep the faith, but not to yourself.

Is There Such A Thing As A Fair Tax?

Congressman John Linder and syndicated radio personality Neal Boortz, believe there is. By the way, I also believe there is a better way to have the Feds do their business. It is known as The Fair Tax.

• The Fair Tax is not a new idea, but it is an idea that has not reached it's time. It has not reached it's time largely because the politicians who work for you in your name do not want to lose control of the money. At one point, there were 54 representatives in favor of the plan and are listed as co-authors of the bill. That number has risen.

• To read more about The Fair Tax plan, please go to this website and spend some time reading the pros and cons about the idea.

Frankie recommends that all of us become more interested in the world we live in and never stop learning. F

What Is The Federal Reserve System?

The man on the street was first a radio program and then a tv show and in some form, does appear on some other programs. Leno goes on the street and asks ordinary citizens current event questions and then the audience gets a great laugh out of the mostly far wrong replies.

• Those types of situations may be an indicator of the knowledge of the majority of the citizenry or, it may be only a small portion of the citizens of arguably the most powerful nation in the world.

• Those answers that reveal a lack of knowledge or disdain for anything other than 'foo ball' or the latest indiscretion of the legal authorities against Lindsay Lohan or her pals may not reflect the core of American values.

• Frankie recommends that you devote an hour of your time to this website and learn a little about just who and how your life is being manipulated.

• I am not suggesting that your life is being mis-handled and most likely without the Federal Reserve System we might not have as much to handle. Frankie believes that everyone should have some knowledge and understanding of what is happening in their life.

• We should not live like the fish in the pond in the back yard at Frankie's house. Those fish just swim around in there watching snail races and waiting to be fed. The memory of a fish is about 3 to 5 seconds. Be more interested and interesting than a fish.

Keep the faith, but not to yourself. FL

WARNING - Your Internet May Disappear?

There are a few BIG communication companies that are putting on a BIG push with probably some BIG incentives for our representatives to make them the gate keepers of your internet.

For example, Verizon, on September 26th decided that not messages discussing pro choice abortion is no longer allowed.

For a full story, please go to this website.

Get involved in your world. Frankie says keep the faith, but not to yourself.