On Thursday and Friday nights this past week, I volunteered at an emergency shelter. Tucson declared a state of emergency due to the cold and the fact that 14k people were without heat. Unfortunately, the shelter didn't get a lot of usage but, still, awesome idea ( Read more... )

In the past 5 days, I have purged 9 garbage bags of shredded papers, 4 garbage bags of misc recycling, 2 garbage bags of clothing and one teeny grocery bag of trash. All out of my bedroom. Add in that I have a box of collected misc stuff that I'd meant to mail to people and hadn't and, well, hello purging ( Read more... )

Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned From Sesame Street (and Mister Hooper)

Sesame Street's anniversary makes me grin and shake my head and realize that I'm getting old. I grew up on Sesame Street. To really get an understanding of how much Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, Electric Company and Mister Roger's Neighborhood meant to me, I ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post but then I figure *meh ( Read more... )