February 2013

  • Craving and love across the world

    Victory and success for the local T-Birds was had last night during trivia @ The Eddy in Saxapahaw.  Our team won and it was a really good time.  I made Valentines for my new good neighbor friends.  Modgepodge and magazine cutouts, crafts zone at my house was inspired by riding by The Sparrow House (a…

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  • Try and Catch The Wind, Dreams and Things

    I watched the Presidential State of the Union address last night, and went to bed rather deflated.  I was impressed by his bold nature, but I wish he would have talked about Syria and all the violence going on around the world.  Drones would have been a topic I would have liked to hear more…

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  • Like I don’t already have enough to do…

    Online classes you can take for free from really amazing universities… This is the one that piqued my interest the most: The Challenges of Global Poverty https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/14.73x/2013_Spring/about ABOUT THIS COURSE This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have…

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  • 10:39 AM 2/12/13 Something to Think About

    Today, in 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born.  He is celebrated in this country because of his efforts as a president to: emancipate slavery and, among other things, officially dub Thanksgiving day the last Sunday of November.  He also gave the Gettysburg address during the Civil War, at the turning point when the North began to…

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