Well, for what feels like the gazillonth time, I’ve decided to pick back up collecting college credit towards the degree I’ll finally have when I’m sixty. (Side note, just a few years ago, that probably would have been Forty, but hey, as we age, so do our perceptions of time!) Partially because of the crappy [...]
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School Dazed
Posted in Issues, Rants, Raves, careers, tagged classes, college, education, Literature on January 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Layoffs, and Downsizing and Recession, Oh My!
Posted in Issues, Rants, careers, tagged careers, downsizing, economy, jobs, lay offs, recession on January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
I have to admit, until very recently, my family and I haven’t really felt the pull of the Recessional undertow. We cut back spending at Christmas and what not, but that was all in the “just in case” mentality. Turns out that might have been a smart move on my part. Very rapidly, the company [...]
Make an Impact, Globally
Posted in Issues, Organizations, Raves, Worthy Causes, women, tagged charity, make a difference, Organizations on January 11, 2009 | Comments Off
In this time of tightening budgets, many people are looking to save money, not spend it– and only on the things that are truly necessary. It should be no surprise that charities and other non-profit organizations are feeling the financial crisis as well. Ironically, these are the times when they need support the most. More [...]
Giving. Its the New Getting.
Posted in Issues, Organizations, Raves, Worthy Causes, tagged charity, clothes, donations, fair trade, gifts, jewlery, philanthropy, recycled, repurposed on January 8, 2009 | Comments Off
(eCo)nscious Market is a self-proclaimed “For-Benefit” online commerce site based in Boulder, Colorado. They tout that their products are the finest ecologically and socially responsible products available, and the company donates a minimum of 10% of every purchase to a non-profit organizations. The even go so far as to let the buyer “hand-pick” the program [...]
From my Soapbox
Posted in Issues, Organizations, Raves, Worthy Causes, tagged endangered species, environment, Organizations, preservation, sierra club, Worthy Causes on January 6, 2009 | Comments Off
In the past, I used to be one of those people that aschewed “Tree-huggers”. I blame it on the era in which I was raised. I would hear the grown ups talking about this group, or that one, and how they were taking away our rights and lively-hoods by their loud campaigning and alarmist reports. [...]
I’m not a morning person…
Posted in Issues, Rants, tagged medical study, sleepy, tired on November 12, 2008 | Comments Off
I’ve been up for almost 3 hours now, and it’s not even 8am yet. Why? you ask. Well, last night I had the pleasure of spending the night in the local hospital for a sleep-study. You know, the kind of visit where they hook you up to all sorts of wires and cords, then watch [...]
Unigue? Odd? Weird?
Posted in Issues, tagged non-conformity, odd, unigue, women on November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
No matter how you phrase it, anything out of the norm (whatever that is) earns you one of many similar monikers. Here, that is not a curse. Being odd has no negative conotations in my world. Nor should it in yours. If anything, differences highlight the very essence of our human condition. A room full [...]
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