Alcohol & You

Kelly Cardon
Alcohol and you: Take the Quiz! Test Your Alcohol KnowledgeProvide a true or false answer for each of the 10 questions listed below. When you are finished, check your results to review your results. Top of Form T   F   Alcohol is a central nervous system stimulant. T   F   Alcohol and aspirin taken together raises Blood Alcohol Levels. T   F   Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are… Read More

Arrests, Attorneys, and Judges

Kelly Cardon
Arrests always come about for a reason, or even many reasons. Whether the arrest is legal or not then becomes the question. If it’s not, and a judge rules that way, and the proper motions are filed, then the charge can be dismissed. The right attorney becomes the decision you must now make to find out if the arrest was… Read More

New Year, New Life?

Kelly Cardon
Many people will make commitments over the next week, most the time, with the idea o bettering their lives. Resolutions are great, but only if they create new habits. As I’ve mentioned here before habits are a great evolutionary tactic, but, they often can create negatives, if not continually reevaluated and adjusted. Sometimes they need to be replaced in total.… Read More

Running the Gauntlet

Kelly Cardon
Whenever someone consumes alcohol or takes impairing drugs, legal, prescribed, or otherwise, and they are away from where they intend to spend the night, they have created a gauntlet. A gauntlet of police or troopers, who are being paid to spot impairment. A gauntlet of risk to themselves, to their future freedom, their jobs, the well being of their family,… Read More

Owning our actions

Kelly Cardon
When we own property, real or personal, we become more powerful in many ways, economically, socially, politically. But, when we own our actions, our thoughts, our mistakes as well as our successes, our power increases exponentially. Our positive growth accompanies this increase. When make the decision to no longer own what we create, that growth and power begins their respective… Read More

Walking the Line on DUIs

Kelly Cardon
Those that push the envelope on getting tagged with a DUI eventually wind up with one. They’ll always wind up all that goes with it. This doesn’t mean that they will be convicted of the charge, but they will suffer the humiliation of handcuffs and arrest, the expense of the whole process, the self deprecation along with the loss of… Read More

Paraphanalia and Controlled Substance: Loss of License

Kelly Cardon
If you are convicted of either if these two charges you will lose you driver’s license, even if it had nothing to do with driving. People often do not understand this fact, and don’t find out until they’ve posted bail, or plead guilty, they receive notice from Driver’s License of the revocation of their license for 6 months, a longer… Read More

Taking action upon an arrest for DUI

Kelly Cardon
Two courses of action are set in motion when you are arrested for DUI: administrative action by the Drivers License Bureau and criminal action by the court system. You must, in order to have any chance to save your driving privilege, within 10 day of the arrest, request a hearing in writing. That hearing will usually be held within 30… Read More

Inspiration and the Payoff

Kelly Cardon
When you make it a goal, everyday, to inspire others, the reward is inspiring. To you, not just to others. Does negative get anyone anywhere? The rush of creating smiles and open eyes and minds has no competition. It lives off of itself and begets its own momentum. Set the goal and move toward it all day, all week. Read More

Life Changes

Kelly Cardon
Everything is constantly changing. If we accept this, then what role do we play in changing our lives, for the present for the future? Choose to change your life, not just let the environment change you. Examine your habits, your viewpoints, your stance, your work, your goals. Continually, not just sometime in the future, because that time may never come.… Read More