Earlier today, I apologized to a friend that I was having trouble multitasking and I needed to take a few minutes to refresh. Unfortunately, I felt I did not have the time to spend a few minutes still, quiet and oblivous to the world around me while I collected myself. And then I saw them! Two […]
This phrase has stuck in my head since I was in college. My college roommate and I would always use it when we would start for the door of our dorm room at the same time. We would laugh, and then one of us would defer. Shirley Jackson’s story “After you, My Dear Alphonse” deals with the serious […]
Yesterday, my friend called and asked if she could come over because she had a case of the blues. The answer was, of course! Four years ago, she suffered from arthritis and asthma. Her primary doctor asked her to see a pulmonary specialist because her arthritis and asthma weren’t responding to the treatments she was giving her. My friend, […]
So, today Democrats are celebrating all over America. We are the majority in the Senate and the House. So just what does this mean? This means our party has the opportunity to bring this country together, but only if we learn from the mistakes that were made by the ones in “power” before us. First of all, […]
Yes, I survived my 17 hour marathon yesterday to blog today. Let me first say, that these are my own personal observations, thoughts and experiences on election day. I am sure that many other people have different thoughts about their experience of yesterday. I hope that they comment here so that I can take these concerns […]
Any of you who know me well knows that one of my passions is getting people to vote and to make sure those votes count. So this year, I decided to take my dedication to this cause one step further. I signed up to be a poll worker. Little did I know that my first […]
Just posted this comment over at BFD in response to a comment made to this post from Ohio Learn and Earn
Dear Learn and Earn:
With all due respect, what a bunch of bsh. Proponents of gambling have tried twice straight up to get gambling in the state of Ohio with no go. Education is a HUGE […]