Please help in the effort to oppose the creation of a dangerous liquified natural gas (LNG) facility near our neighborhoods. The facility would be built at 2130 Chillum Rd, Hyattsville MD. Here is where it would be on the map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en& safe=active&q=2130+Chillum+Road+Hyattsville &ie=UTF8&ll=38.954336,-76.976051&spn=0.008577 ( Read more... )

Help those who lost their homes.
http://hearmountpleasant.org/

Check out some great b/w photography in Bethesda MD at Fraser Gallery, during Bethesda Art Walk, Friday Feb 8, 2008 (6-9 pm). A friend of mine,
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• This week in Squirrel news. (Perhaps that's what my blog should be called.)
  

• Tempting to make this my new userpic:

 
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I saw this Sarah Ruhl play at Woolly Mammoth in Washington, DC, a week or so ago in "pay-what-you-can" previews right before its official opening night. Highly recommended--and it has just been extended until July 8. A woman in a cafe sees a man die, picks up his cell phone and starts answering it, and becomes intertwined with the people who were ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101967.html

I went to a meeting of potential volunteers for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program at my workplace last week because I was interested, and because the co-worker sponsoring the meeting appeared in my office right before it started. This co-worker has been a big brother out west, and is currently one in Virginia.

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I haven't understood the whole news glut lately of "lotsa people could lose their homes because of the high-interest, high-risk predatory lending" stories. Well, I haven't understood in terms of "how could it affect me?" (assuming I keep my job and my health and am not in danger of losing my home, that is), even though I read a few articles and ( Read more... )