Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Easier said than done these days, it seems. Everywhere you turn, people are wiggin’ out. And I probably would, too, if I was facing foreclosure or had lost a my retirement funds in the stock market the last few weeks. Thankfully, neither are true for me.
I’ve got my own barrel of monkeys I’m dealing [...]
Tags: Financial crisis, Project Powerful and Positive
Stuck Sucks!
Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic is poverty. This is a topic I thought I knew something about, having been, at one point, a single mother, pregnant with another child, bankrupt and barely employed. In the years since, I’ve “qualified” as living at or below the poverty line a few times.
But since [...]
Tags: Agnes Ndetei, Blog Action Day, Irene Kabot, Kenya, Kibwezi, Wells of Love and Hope
Why Women Should Vote
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And [...]
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