Crocodile Hunter’s Dad Gets the Boot from Son’s Zoo

Can’t we all just get along? There is a major disturbance going on in the Australian zoo created by the late Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin… only it doesn’t involve feisty animals. According to Australian TV reports, Irwin’s father, Bob, said he quit the family’s Australian conservation park because he had become a “disrupting influence.” That’s his story anyway. The Australian media have their own take on what really went down behind the zoo’s gates. Rumor has it Terri Irwin, Steve’s wife and mother of his two children, had fallen out with Bob Irwin following his son’s death in a 2006 … Continue reading →

Princess Diana’s Sons Plan Memorial Concert In Her Honor

Can you believe that it has been nearly a decade since Princess Diana died in that horrific car crash? Ten years since the entrance to her home was turned into a sea of flowers; her front gates transformed into a bulletin board of sorts, plastered with banners announcing the pain, shock and sorrow people from around the world felt when they heard the news of her death. It’s also been ten years since we watched her two visibly distraught sons walk silently behind her casket—–perched on top—a bouquet of flowers, and nestled among the blossoms a card that read simply: … Continue reading →

Coretta Scott King: Death of An Empress

In the late evening of January 30, 2006, Coretta Scott King died, leaving the world a much lesser and sadder place. The widow of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. was a noted activist and community leader in her own right. She died in Mexico, where she was undergoing holistic therapy from a stroke and advanced ovarian cancer. In almost cosmic poetic symmetry, she died on the very same date in the year that the world lost Mahatma Ghandi. Coretta Scott King was born on a farm in Heiberger, Alabama and although her parents, Obadiah and Bernice McMurry Scott, owned … Continue reading →