We had a beautiful spring day here in the Twin Cities and a spring thunderstorm tonight, changing the face of the city; from grey and dirty and tired looking to green and fresh and full of hope.
And I was lucky enough to be out in it for a bit. I spent the morning at the [...]
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Edit 10:33 AM 3/19/08: If you read nothing else (heck if you don’t even read my post) please click here and read this post [...]
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4 years ago 2007
just wondering 2007
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4 years ago 2007
just wondering 2007
A couple of links to help you reach out and help the people affected by the storms in the Southern states this week.
American Red Cross
Lutheran Disaster Response
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
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rough week 2007
Leukemia Day 5 2005
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This is guy is (unfortunately) absolutely correct. I have not not done this enough either locally or at the national level.
I need to start stepping up here. Anybody care to join me and give it a whirl? I know for those of us watching even out of the corner of our eyes it might seem [...]
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my family of origin is very focused on the gift giving aspect of the Christmas celebration. In that post I mentioned that if I even thought about giving Heifer Project gifts to my mom it would be a scandal of epic proportions.
Turns out, not everyone knows what [...]
Last week I discovered freerice.com. A web site where you can play a word game and for every correct answer, the advertisers kick in money for 10 grains of rice. The guy who runs the site contributes the money to the United Nations World Food Program and they use the money to buy locally grown [...]
I suppose I’m probably really late to the party, but I heard about this site on NPR tonight on my way home from the theater. (actually it was on the Canadian Show “Future Tense” which is in the middle of “As it Happens” which has possibly the coolest theme song in the history of radio.)
This [...]
Please. Go here and read this.
I haven’t posted about this issue because as soon as I sit to write something my blood pressure just goes through the roof. And since I don’t have insurance currently in effect, it is incumbent on me (according to my fascist dictator supreme leader the president) to make “wise choices” [...]
Let me see if I understand this one.
Some guy in some think tank somewhere thinks that his reason for being is to design, manufacture and sell (to someone) and give away a $100 laptop for every child in undeveloped countries.
Because that’s what they need. More than clean water or adequate food. More than a malaria [...]
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