I am discouraged about my business. I need more people to make money and the more people I have join, the less time I have in general, and I just don't know what to do. The goal of doing something I can do with my family is starting to not work the bigger and more complex it gets ( Read more... )

If you have ever purchased a toy, book, furniture, or children's ( Read more... )

And it's my birthday! My amazing husband threw me a SURPRISE 40th party last Saturday, complete with my best friend since I was 13 being there with her family. There were about 50 people in my house when I came home from work, all yelling "Surprise!" and I truly was touched. I guess Brian's been planning it for about 9 months (giving lead time ( Read more... )

I joined facebook. It seems to be a huge drain of energy for the purpose of trading lighthearted comments with people who you hardly know. OTOH, I've found half of the people I started a theatre group with in high school without even trying.

As a kid I remember putting on endless "shows" for my parents. I'd organize my siblings into shows with me sometimes. But now as a parent myself, I know that mine must have been bored out of their minds sometimes, especially when I didn't seem to know when to stop. I read a brilliant article about this a while back (I think in Wondertime) where ( Read more... )

This cartoon made me cry.  It made me cry tears of pride or perhaps patriotism for our country, something I haven't felt since 9/11 when our country seemed so united.

My friend across the street said the day after the election she was riding home on her bike thinking how wonderful the world looked.  I felt much the same way.  I think that our ( Read more... )

I swear I do not post a fraction of what MoveOn sends me, but this election is important ( Read more... )

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Here's something I thought was cool. Donate $5 or more the Obama campaign and get a chance to go to convention for free and shake the hand of "the man who". I love this because just about anyone can contribute $5 to a campaign ( Read more... )

I thought this was a pretty nice article on writing editorials as a form of political activism. Sometimes we don't have time to do anything but write ( Read more... )