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on Sep 10th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
If you are going to do a segment on growing old gracefully, why do you interview women who have obviously had facelifts? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of your topic? Their are plenty of naturally beautiful women out there.
on Sep 10th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Last week you had a segment about a teacher that was recorded and put on the net with music that gave off a bad idea of her. Now Carl’s Jr. has a commercial with 2 teens rapping about flat buns and it basically shows no respect for the teacher even though they are suppose to be rapping about the buns at Carl’s Jr. You basically don’t have to go to the net to see bad behavior - It is in most of the commercials. I would love to see this commercial taken off the air because I find it very offensive for any woman.
on Sep 11th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
In response to your Sept 11th report on juggling work and aging parents…
At the age of 40, my young parents were diagnosed with terminal cancer simultaneously. I made the decision to resign from my nursing job in Saudi Arabia to care for them in their home until they passed. I was given a wonderful letter of recommendation. I was also given a letter of guarantee for re-hire if I chose to return to work in the future. I returned to Saudi Arabia after I buried my parents and settled their estate and reunite with my husband who maintained his job there until my return. When I went to my employer for my job back, they no longer felt an obligation to make good on their letter of guarantee.
I have no regrets in my decision to resign and care for my parents. I got to experience a different side of my parents when faced with death that I would have otherwise not seen. On the other hand, I also experienced the cruelty of the corporate world in light of what I had just been thru. Beware, there are no guarantees!
on Sep 11th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Questions about sex and how to talk to your kids:I am a 26 year old mom, My son is 6 and has asked questions like “why do girls have bumps?” He is referring to breasts and “what is in there?” referring to his testicles. I cant say it generates sperm to make babies and I dont feel that comfortable discussing why women have breasts - my son is immature and I am trying to keep him as innocent and non-sexist as possible, how do I answer these wild questions without going too far for his age? i am afraid of him looking at women differently after talking about these topics.
on Sep 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Tell the boy yhe truth.My 6 year old daughter has questions too,and I try to answeer them truthfully,because I have found when I try to answer her questions in a fairy tale way the more questions she”ll ask.However when I tell her the truth in without being graffic she comprends better.They are a lot smarter than you give them credit for.
on Sep 11th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Tell the boy the truth. My 6 year old daughter has questions too,and I try to answer them truthfully.I have found that when I try to answer her in fairy tale ways the more questions she”ll ask.However when I tell her the truth in natures way she understands better.They are smarter than we think.
on Sep 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I think it sad that Oprah didn’t include LaChanze, the only award winner for the Color Purple and a woman who lost her husband in 911 in the opening show from NY this week. It seems apparent that they aren’t happy that LaChanze left the show at the end of her contract taking the Tony with her. Politics in show business is alive and well.
on Sep 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
On Sept 12 at around 7:45 a.m. you did a piece on “Reinventing Wal-Mart”. As I listened I wondered if you will look once again on how or if the store is “reinventing” their employee policies regarding work hours, and health benefits, including the price of prescription drugs that employees pay.
If so, would you please do air that piece as well?
Thank you
on Sep 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Regarding the Sept. 12 interview with the person who wrote Power to the People. I applaud her and agree totally. If the media would stop giving coverage (pun intended) towhat is distasteful sexual behavior in performances and commercials and programming that appears on almost all channels, I agree that that would be a start to end this kind of message to our young people.
on Sep 12th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
The Wal-mart stores I have visited here in north central Tennessee have consistantly offered, along with their higher quality, higher priced items; inferior, out dated, ill fitting products that are unusable, inedible, unreliable and/or short lived. When ever I shop there more than one of my purchases is unusable. Moldy baked goods with several days left on the freshness date, produce that is rotton and/or bruesed on the inside, household goods so poorly made they often times do not make it through the installation process or don’t perform once they are installed and clothing improperly and inconsistantly proportioned or sized, are things offered to the people who can least afford them.
There are hardly ever enough employees in customer service or the pharmacy and the employees who are there are often poorly trained and don’t know how to handle the exchanges and need to call for additional help. I and others have had to wait in lines more than an hour because there was only one person working in these positions who has no sense of how to handle the poition.
I am a senior citizen on a fixed income who has to rely on other people for transportation. there is no convenient solution for me when things like this occur. I have to make due with the time that is offered me when I shop and have no way of returning the unusable goods or time to spend in line for an hour to be waited on.
I can’t afford to pass up the opportunity to save money but it can be a real hard ship for me to come home with purchases I can’t use and can’t return.
on Sep 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
The Wal-mart stores I have visited here in north central Tennessee have consistantly offered, along with their higher quality, higher priced items; inferior, out dated, ill fitting products that are unusable, inedible, unreliable and/or short lived. When ever I shop there more than one of my purchases is unusable. Moldy baked goods with several days left on the freshness date, produce that is rotton and/or bruesed on the inside, household goods so poorly made they often times do not make it through the installation process or don’t perform once they are installed and clothing improperly and inconsistantly proportioned or sized, are things offered to the people who can least afford them.
There are hardly ever enough employees in customer service or the pharmacy and the employees who are there are often poorly trained and don’t know how to handle the exchanges and need to call for additional help. I and others have had to wait in lines more than an hour because there was only one person working in these positions who have no sense of how to handle the poition.
I am a senior citizen on a fixed income who has to rely on other people for transportation. there is no convenient solution for me when things like this occur. I have to make due with the time that is offered me when I shop and have no way of returning the unusable goods or time to spend in line for an hour to be waited on.
I can’t afford to pass up the opportunity to save money but it can be a real hard ship for me to come home with purchases I can’t use and can’t return.
on Sep 13th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
The story about the two soldiers that wrote an article touched my heart. They were true heros. They were not afraid to speak their mind about the war while serving their country. Their truck somehow goes off an inbankment and they both die. This I feel is not an accident. I hope someone will look into this. Right now our government is so corrupt, I don’t believe anything they say. I think those boys were murdered. Please investigate.
PS Robyn, I hope everything is going well for you. I continue to pray for your health. Marilyn
on Sep 13th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I am a sixty six year old pro. skydiver who is very active in the sport, doing about two hundred jumps a year. I partisipate in many world record attemps with our group called “Skydiver Over Sixty” or SOS. It is my goal to get older folks to be more active and stop sitting around with thumbs on T.V. clickers sertching for something exciting to happen when they should be outside having fun and doing things with other seniors or with clubs and volenteer work. I was recently interviewed by the Detroit Free Press, and they did a nice pictorial article about us and we recieved a ton of feedback from seniors as well as many younger people on how to get started being more active. I am also a cancer survivor of twenty six years. I know this is asking a lot, but I could reach so many poeple if I could just get on your show for a few min. in the near future. Thanks for concidering this letter. David “Doc” Ferrazza.
on Sep 14th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
You did an commentary on Wal-Mart Friday, 9/14 with some enteresting things they are doing. Maybe I missed something before friday so here goes. What I saw in McKinney TX and another in Aurora, CO. On the front of the building they have solar panels, in the parking lot they have a wind generator, the play ground has recycled rubber to soften the ground. They have planted shrubs,plants and grass around the parking lot to cleans the water runn off before it goes into the wetland pond. They are using more porous materials in the sidewalks and general areas to let the rain water to go into the ground sooner, rather than run straight to the curb and into the gutter. I’m not a large fan of Wal-Mart because they push the smaller businessman into retirement. Yes they do bring lower prices to one store. There will always be pros and cons with any business, but lets give credit where it belongs if it is do.