Here's ten people and a dog hovering around a back to school sale on a downtown city street. Mom is holding her world together (barely). She's a "one woman band" out shopping and on the phone while restraining the family dog and watching the baby all at the same time....

From a block away I spotted the old red, white and blue through the crowds in downtown Long Beach, California. Now I'm as patriotic as most Americans and I did serve for four years so it annoyed me to see our flag displayed this way, you know... in a bucket. So I moved...