Okay, it would not accept wildcards (*). @mattwilson9090, you were right I don't need subdomains if you have the root of the domain entered.  That seems logical but I realized my problem was that I hadn't put in google.com because it worked for searc...

I'm still studying the behavior OpenDNS but I'm finding that subdomains are blocks.  For example, I find that I am able to use most of google.com but I can see that I am blocked from subdomains and confirm in my blocked domain logs the following site...

I was able to only add: gmail.com mail.gmail.com  to never block, waited 5 min, and that worked. Good luck.