Bradley “Brad” William Popejoy, Sr. passed away at age 72 on Sunday, November 20, 2022. Brad was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 6, 1950. As a young boy, Brad and his brother grew up loving baseball including their mother, Gwen’s, favorite team the New York Yankees. In the years of the M & M…
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Welcome to My America
Welcome to My America music and lyrics by Sarah Popejoy (c) 2022 Welcome to my America 10 shot down in Buffalo Welcome to my America Another headline Another violent crime Manifesto written in blood Peacemakers say it will all be okay While politicians are chewing the cud In my America Welcome to my America Kids…
From a Nurse in a CoVID hit Nursing Home
Closed to all visitors, quarantine, and social distancing are all words and phrases that have become sorely familiar during this pandemic called CoVID. From the inside as a nurse who cares for elderly patients in a nursing home the details leave pained realities. Imagine not being able to be hugged for a year. The usual…
The American Spirit, An Identity Crisis
Today is the fourth of July. In America, it’s our most sacred patriotic holiday. It’s a time we come together and celebrate our union as a country. It’s a union of 50 states and 5 territories. It’s a union of over 327 million people¹ with diverse family backgrounds, faiths, and political beliefs. All make up…
Lead like Shirley Chisholm
What do you define as leadership? Someone who’s able to move massive amounts of people? Someone who’s able to lead movements like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandi? Maybe you think of someone who kept a country from dividing and stood with moral courage like Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe you think of someone like a…
10 Leadership Quotes That Changed How I Think
Every week I read a new book on leadership or self-development. This is kind of a running list of some of the quotes that have most challenged me and strengthened me at the same time. I will continue to add to this page as the weeks of reading go on and I invite you to…
7 Tips for Reading a Book a Week ~ When You are Short on Time
I get it. You don’t have time to read a book a week or feel that it’s a crazy goal. There are more important things to do right? The wisest man in history would disagree. Solomon, King of Isreal, was considered the wisest man throughout history and the history to come.¹ (Not a bad title.)…
Why I Am No Longer a Republican
It’s been a couple years in the making… but I can no longer in good conscious be associated with a party that stands behind racism, sexism, and worst of all siting Christianity as it’s cause when the current present has no respect for women, people of other races or religious, and has been anything but Christian and especially not moral.
Being a Superhero
When I was 5 years old, I had finally made my decision of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Full of excitement, I enthusiastically ran to go tell my Mom. “Mom… I know what I want to be when I grow up.” “What?”, my Mom eagerly asked staring down at my small…