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Advocacy

A Day Late & a Dollar Short

January 19, 2010

I apologize that I am, by nature, unable to get to things on time.  I am perpetually late for: work meetings, Church, movies, blog topics, life in general. *Sigh*
A day late & a dollar short, that’s me.
However, today I had to follow the advice of this little ditty: better late than never.
In honor of yesterday, [...]

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Earthquake for Thomas the Tank Engine (& Haiti)

January 16, 2010

Yesterday, my husband Dave, our son Ransom & I got together to discuss our response to the disaster in Haiti.  We began by watching videos of the better times in Haiti, followed by footage and images of the devastation.
It’s hard to know how much is too much for a four year old but we have [...]

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Progress Report

January 14, 2010

Several progress reports…
Progress on Responding to Haiti:
Being someone who strongly empathizes with the suffering of others I have to monitor what I take in.  If I get too emotionally invested in horrible human atrocities it takes me out of the ball game. (Especially those in which I am completely powerless).  In some ways I’ve watched [...]

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It’s in the Bag

January 5, 2010

Because my husband also came home with a really cool blue Urbana bag, I thought I’d re-post \”targetshoppers\” recent blog about a really cool bag story…
“My husband came home from Urbana with this really cool new bag. When I commented on it, he said, “you should hear the story behind it.” And so, I heard the [...]

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I Hate my Religious Activity

December 12, 2009

As I was running errands this morning several cars & myself passed an old handicapped man who was clearly stuck in the middle of a large mini-mall parking lot riding a motorized scooter trying to push it along with his cane.
His left hand & left arm was shriveled. His left foot had a huge [...]

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