40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, and changed the world forever. Today, as NASA runs special programming, as the international space station hosts the greatest number of astronauts and scientists it ever has, and as people around the world mark the anniversary in their own way, what I […]
If you’re looking for an insider scoop on DNC media coverage check out my writing group friend, Laurel Kallenbach’s blog at www.LaurelKallenbach.com. Laurel is a media volunteer for the DNC, more specifically a press runner. Clocking aproximately 9 miles a day on a pedomiter she’s getting a workout by delivering hundreds of copies of speeches […]
Sometimes the anomalies in life just hit me. We’ve been struggling with the rampant growth of greenery (for greenery read weeds) in our garden this year. Everything is so green and lush. I have spent hours losing the battle to clear the bindweed, dandelions, nettles and horses tail from the ground, at the same time […]
My husband and I are hosting a Japanese exchange student for three weeks this summer. It’s our first time, our trial run before considering hosting a student for an entire school year. Our student is a teenage girl from Tokyo. As a childless couple, we’d spent a fair amount of time before […]
Let’s take a moment and join our French friends in observing their national holiday, which we refer to as Bastille Day in English, but is known as the Fête Nationale or (more commonly) quatorze juillet to the natives.
Bastille Day dates back to 1790 and the Fête de la Fédération, which commemorated the storming of the […]
If you live in the United States, you already know that today is Independence Day, a holiday that is always celebrated on July 4th. For history buffs out there, you may remember that that date was chosen as this day because the Second Continental Congress adopted the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of […]
While those of us in the United States are looking forward to the upcoming three-day weekend we get for Independence Day on July 4th, today is an important day of note for Canada, and I wanted to take a moment to wish our Canadian readers and contributors a Happy Canada Day!
What’s Canada Day?
It’s not […]
Samara’s recent blog post reminded me of a wonderful charity I stumbled upon recently: www.booksforsoldiers.com. According to their website, Booksforsoldiers.com is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting those in the US military who are deployed outside the US. Military personnel are invited to make requests, and members read the requests and fill them. Booksforsoldiers.com receives […]
It is no secret that I do not approve of the war in Iraq. The financial devastation that it has caused both countries pales in comparison to the loss in lives. Our young men and women, many not even old enough to legally buy beer or wine in this country, have given their lives at […]
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