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If anyone needs me in the next few weeks, I shall be cavorting among the Hawaiian and Marshall Islands. Be back the end of October. See ya on the flip side…

More numbers15,000,000: The number of children who will die from starvation this year.160,000,000: The number of children under 5 who suffer from malnutrition.1 out of 6: The number of elderly in the United States who don’t get enough to eat.1/2: Of all children under the age of 5 in South Asia who suffer from malnutrition.70%:Continue reading

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What does $700,000 buy?It depends on who you are.If you’re a college, it will build 1/3 of a new chapel. If you’re a church, it will buy ½ of a large, state-of-the-arc organ. If you’re a radio station, it will buy the construction permits for 2 new stations. If you’re a businessman, it will hire an average ofContinue reading “statistics”

And so.Let’s discuss right vs. wrong today, as it appears that a number of people have forgotten the difference.So here’s the skinny.Right is when you put others ahead of yourself. Right is when you ask for money nicely, without lying. Right is when you use the money that people donate to you wisely, showing goodContinue reading

I love this poster. The single, solitary pawn, moving away from safety in order to win something worthwhile. You know what’s going to happen, if you’re at all familiar with chess. The pawn is going to be captured. It is going to be taken out of competition, left out far away from the playing field,Continue reading

Tonight, at 10 p.m., NBC is unveiling it’s latest sitcom, the much-heralded Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.(Yet another example, emails the always-ever-knowing-what-I-should-do Jason, of why it pays to be nice to people. Not that you’d know.Dance with the one that brung ya, I emailed back. And then made a list of people I shouldContinue reading

Sometimes I think there must be a limit on the bad things that can happen to one person in her lifetime, and that I have to be pretty close to the limit.Regular eye appointment today; I needed new contacts and it had been a year.Discovered I am now legally blind in my left eye. CorrectedContinue reading

Yes, to all my friends who are calling and leaving irate messages on my cell phone about how I have fallen off the face of the planet, I have. I’m sorry. I’m working sixty hours a week plus trying to finish up the last three weeks of school before I leave. It’s a madhouse, andContinue reading

It has come to my attention that the “Dove shoot” is being held just a few houses down from my aunt and uncle’s in South Carolina. Apparently, they live in an area where people shoot birds that symbolize peace.Especially Republican people shoot birds that symbolize peace.Hmmm. (Erica, do you think this is for real? AreContinue reading

You might have to click on it to see it properly. Wow. And I thought my town was weird.(Thanks to the always observant Dan Perrine for this)