Jeanne Sparks-Carreker
Although a writer at heart, I have wanted to experience almost everything encountered in life (which has proven to be an idiotic tendency on too many occasions). I determinedly try to answer the numerous "But WHY?" questions within me, which at times labels me a connoisseur of "the edge." I am certain I will continue to be a repeat returnee to that cliff side until I die, and will one day learn to practice “edge dwelling” in a healthy, sane manner (smile). "Carpe Diem! Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary!" So is the motto of my life.
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Articles by Jeanne Sparks-Carreker
July 28, 2007
And I'm Confused Over Where the Rant Should Be Focused
BIRMINGHAM-You’d think that everyone knows by now that kids should not have access to guns without parental supervision. Well, I suppose that’s the old voice of a southern heritage coming out in me when I say that. Though a female, I was taug...
July 06, 2007
ALABAMA COURTROOM-A Caucasian female living in a major city in the south is arrested late one night for unknowingly selling a gram of methamphetamine to an undercover officer. This isn't her first rodeo, however, due to the fact that she had been picked up a few times before on possession charges. E...
May 18, 2007
Ordinarily, women’s shelters are established for a variety of reasons. For the battered and abused women and children of our society, these homes can mean a safe and secure place to live, sleep, and begin a new, productive life. For those who are displaced, or have no home of their own, the shelters...
May 18, 2007
Call me a worrier. Call me a conspiracy theorizer. Maybe you could even say I have too much time on my hands or need to “get a life.” However you deem my opinion, there still remains a strangeness in the flow of our media and the way it grabs America’s attention away from the real issues at hand.
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May 14, 2007
Apparently, the three American soldiers who were kidnapped in the ambush South of Baghdad over the weekend have become the tool for Al Qaeda’s vengeance. A warning was issued by Al Qaeda which explained that the three soldiers are being held by them as a sort of “get-back” for the rape and murder of...
May 13, 2007
What is it like to live in a privileged country, one providing its citizens with the opportunity to pursue happiness, and one guaranteeing them that the happiness they establish will indeed be protected at all costs?
What is it like to live in a country where citizens can lay their heads down on...
May 11, 2007
Perhaps it's the tail wagging the dog. Perhaps it's the cover-up of a possible infiltration that if explained in truth, would scare the world and send shock waves through the "impenetrable society" known as the United States. But whatever America decides to believe after hearing the questions, it mo...
April 30, 2007
In our fast moving, modern age, one tends to overlook the wisdom of those who have struggled through life before us. Indeed, many bright young students may even see the musings of history’s greatest ghosts as cornerstones of an era that was perhaps less intelligent as their own. I, myself, have been...
April 28, 2007
We have all heard them and sometimes have even sworn by them. But what old wives’ tales can we actually believe? Some are based on superstition, some on partial truth, and some of them seem to be a logical improbability – or do they?
Many old wives’ tales were created due to the fact that factual...
April 11, 2007
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Methadone is a rigorously well-tested medication that is safe and efficacious for the treatment of narcotic withdrawal and dependence.”
Years ago, I believed that I could not give up my little pain pill habit. Lortab, Lorcet, Tylox, whate...
April 05, 2007
BIRMINGHAM–Timothy lives in a modest, split-level home in the town of Huffman. Known in the community as “the Ticking Time-Bomb,” the 48 year old machinist has lived a life that many people in this town refer to as “just plain sad.”
When approaching the front door by way of a long, cobblestone s...
March 21, 2007
BIRMINGHAM-Addictions can be deadly. I should have been dead already, many times over, from overdoing opiates, methadone, “Liquid G,” and the queen that locked me in the tower, crystal meth. I sincerely hope I can intelligently warn others in a powerful manner to never try any drug, not even those t...
March 21, 2007
BAGHDAD-A dictator is dethroned and a country liberated from his tyrannical, sometimes torturous rule, and amidst human interest groups protesting the early morning hanging of the fourth man involved in the killings of 148 Shiites, to car bombs in Kirkuk killing 12, the smallest cries of this war se...
March 20, 2007
It’s official. The vice-president of Iraq from 1991 to 2003 has been hanged and is now dead, although human rights groups from around the world protested the execution, especially since the problems rose surrounding executions of the other two deputies in Saddam Hussein’s regime. Apparently one of t...
March 20, 2007
The first thing noted when visiting www.poverty.com, are pictures of children steadily popping up across a map of the world, being added one – by – one to a running total for the current hour entitled “Hunger Deaths This Hour.” The number never stops. It never even pauses.
According to the UN, ev...
March 19, 2007
CANTON TOWNSHIP - Ashley Ann Pierce, nineteen years old, lay dead under a pile of dirty laundry located in the living room of the apartment in the 41000 block of Heathmore. Her roommate, a twenty eight year old female, called the dead girl’s father repeatedly over a three-week period and told him hi...
March 17, 2007
JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL-From Mayberry’s local wino who took up residence in a cell especially kept for him to cable television’s OZ, the “free world” is shown a side of life that is happily unknown to many people. Because it is natural to fear what is unknown to us as humans, there are different thing...
March 02, 2007
MARYLAND-Deamonte Driver was a 12-year old boy with a common ailment for kids his age: he had a toothache. An infection had set up in the root, commonly known as an absessed tooth, for which an extraction can be performed for less than one-hundred dollars.
But before he could be treated for the p...
February 26, 2007
ISRAEL-Director James Cameron has plans to break news about an archaeological dig in Jerusalem about 25 years ago that apparently unearthed the body of Jesus Christ and his earthly parents. The reason it took 25 years for him to speak up? It took time to translate the names on the primitive caskets....
February 24, 2007
BIRMINGHAM - February being black history month, I am reminded of the emotional pull that a couple of speeches from way back caused me. Being born white and having been raised in Alabama, I have seen the ways that racism is displayed by cowards desiring for there to be others who are beneath them in...
February 21, 2007
ALABAMA-It is always an honor to realize that you live in a state that is the home of real American heroes. On January 20th of this year, Army barracks were ambushed in Karbala, Iraq, and four American soldiers were abducted. The kidnappers had pretended to be American authorities in order to gain e...
February 19, 2007
A Rebuttal to Kristina Jones’s Article, “New Candy Drug Hits West Coast,” Published with Associated Content.com
BIRMINGHAM-Though perhaps unknown to Kristina Jones, the article “New Candy Drug Hits West Coast,” contains insinuations and falsities that actually hamper the prevention of the ongoing...
February 16, 2007
While I finish off the box of Whitman's Sampler, an odd guilt pierces me with pictures of what I could become if I do not give up the sweets. For me, the addiction is chocolate. I could name a number of influences and contributors to this habit which touched me and my addictive personality over the ...