A completely subjective list of favorite toys left by Santa this year.
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Feeling the Christmas Card Blues
Feeling sorrow about the long lost practice of sending and receiving Christmas cards that, no matter what the distance, seemed to bring people closer together.
Read More »Preparing For Holiday House Guests
Depending on the number of house guests you are expecting this holiday season, making sure that everyone has breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a few days can be really overwhelming.
Read More »Common Core Wars: Parents and Teachers Force Awakening
This is a tremendous victory for the parents and teachers of the state who became “the force” for good against the dark side of standardized testing and Common Core.
Read More »Social Media Pyramid Schemes and the Momtrepreneur
One "independent sales consultant" gets one of their “friends” to be an independent sales consultant who gets one of their “friends” to be one – you get the idea. Most people just join in to get free samples, making little to no money in the end.
Read More »35th Anniversary of John Lennon’s Death – We’re Still Not Giving Peace a Chance
The sense that we are always “at war” is overwhelming and frightening – our children born since 9/11 have never known a world without war,
Read More »Shooting Stars – The Media Promotes Terrorism and Obama Stokes Gun Sales
All this media attention on killers and terrorists is merely giving food to the monster that doth mock the hand that feeds it.
Read More »The Reaction to Terrorist Attacks – Are We Giving Them Exactly What They Want?
If our main problem with terrorists is that they threaten our way of life, how can we fray the fabric of that existence in an effort to combat them?
Read More »Charlie Sheen Reveals He Has HIV With Grace Under Pressure
If he can indeed help others – even save other lives – Charlie’s story has a much happier ending than anyone could have imagined for him a few days ago.
Read More »Paris Attacks: Give Peace a Chance
The killings in Paris are part of a cycle based on erroneous beliefs and assumptions. Now is a time when we can pause and start a new cycle – a cycle of waking up to our oneness with each other, with our Mother Earth and indeed the entire universe.
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