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Christmas thought
Preface: Last year, the muy awesome sillyduck8 gave me a book of daily reflections. I'm never very good at keeping up with those page-a-day things, (I tend to forget about them for weeks and then pick it up and read it all at once) but the book has been great as I've picked it up at various points of the year. It's called gardening the soul: soothing ( Read more... ) -
Picture pages part 3 - sports!
Until about 10 years ago, I was never a fan of organized sports. I hated playing them and watching them bored me.
Then I went to Ecuador, and became a soccer mom. Watching my boys play gives me incredible joy. This year, we fielded two teams for the Guayaquil high school championship - the equivalent of JV and varsity. We came in 3rd in both ( Read more... ) -
News and politics linkfest
Sorry if I've got a bit of a one-track mind lately. More ecua-stuff soon, but as Iowa approaches I'm getting sucked in.
This is outrageous. Short story - a woman working for a contractor in Iraq was gang-raped. Her employer locked her up in a storage container and lost the rape kit. Her attackers get off scot-free because neither Iraqi nor US ( Read more... ) -
Ranting part II
Huckabee stands by his comments.In 1992, when Huckabee made these remarks, it was well-known that HIV could not be spread by casual contact. In 1992, I was a junior in high school We'd covered AIDS in sex ed our freshman year. A fourteen year old could tell you how to prevent transmission, and it didn't involve locking everybody with HIV up in ( Read more... ) -
Huckabee on HIV (bitter ranting)
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had some interesting thoughts on HIV/AIDS in 1992. Yes, it was fifteen years ago. However, still deeply disturbing.
A few direct quotes:
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing somethingwith the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague ( Read more... ) -
Picture pages part 3 - Travels!
I got to make several day or weekend trips during my time there. One to visit a good friend (actually, my very first Ecuadorian friend, who I met right after getting of the plane 10 years ago) and several to do follow-up visits with former shelter kids. And really, it's just coincidence that they lived by a gorgeous beach.
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Picture pages part 2 - little godkids
One of the highlights of my trip was hanging out with my godkids. Here are my three youngest.
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Picture pages part 1 - big events
I was really bad about posting while in Ecuador, so to make up for it, I'm going to do a couple of entries to summarize the trip with photo highlights. Still figuring out how to use the LJ photo album, hopefully these will come out ok.
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Elections, hospitals, and other news
Big elections in Ecuador tomorrow.
There was an article in the paper today that over half the population doesn´t know what the elections are for (they´re electing an assembly to write a new constitution) and that only 2 % of the population has ever read the current constitution. Yikes.
In other news, the hospital sagas of the past week...if I can ( Read more... )
