As you know from my blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, and water cooler rants, I am frustrated with our local school board. OK, I'm admittedly more pissed that frustrated, but being angry doesn't make me take action. We are at the one year mark since life as we know started … [Read more...] about Wake County Schools: One Year Later
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I voted. 10 Minutes.
Banish any thoughts of being too busy to vote. This is not exercise we're talking about here. I don't want to hear your sorry excuses. Your boss, by law, has to give you time off to vote. Polls are open until 7:30 PM (in North Carolina). Don't dilly dally. This is not something … [Read more...] about I voted. 10 Minutes.
Equality. Minus the Women. – Wordless Wednesday
Kill an American and Get $1M
I didn't post about 9/11. And I haven't posted about the Koran burnings and other such hateful noise that's pierced our world. I've been ballooned with joy and crushed by sadness on the roller coaster that is life. While I'd like to lug around my soap box and sing out for justice … [Read more...] about Kill an American and Get $1M
Wordless Wednesday: Active(ist).
Hearty Susan – 5:00 Fridays
Reposting this (originally posted November 5, 2010) to mark International Women's Day. Let's toast one of our own and channel her moxie to continue to fight the good fight for women all over this planet. Cheers! Susan B. Anthony gave the women of this country the right to … [Read more...] about Hearty Susan – 5:00 Fridays
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Have Me Fired Up
Tater tots, while funny in Napoleon Dynamite, are not the stuff of healthy lunches.Green beans with no crunch and the slightly tinny taste of a can. I'll pass.Cole slaw bathing in mayonnaise. Not the best way to dress the otherwise healthy cabbage.Hot dogs full of nitrites, … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Initiative and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Have Me Fired Up