I don’t know if I’ve ever posted about this before, but I’m a volunteer with the E-Buddies Program. This program pairs volunteers with intellectually disabled participants to form e-mail friendships. I’ve been doing this for 6 years now, and have had two e-buddies in that time.
My current buddy is Kristy, a woman I’ve been [...]
I just read that the WHO has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to phase 5, the second highest level. This means the organization thinks a worldwide pandemic of the disease is “imminent”. So far, there have been confirmed human cases of swine flu in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Britain, Israel, New [...]
Ok, well I have just been on Twitter for a couple of months now, and I’m already getting sick of it. Not many of my friends are on there, so I’m actually following a lot of celebrities… but the novelty has definitely worn off by now. There are only so many times I can read [...]
I haven’t done the Manic Monday meme in a long, long time, but since I’m fighting through a bit of writer’s block as far as my blogs go, I thought today would be a good day to get back to the meme. Maybe the questions will help kickstart my creativity and give me something to [...]
It was inevitable, I guess. And really, if I found out that more than 50 million people worldwide had viewed a clip of me on YouTube and if paparazzi were stalking my every move, I’d want to look my best as well. But still, I’m a bit disappointed to see that Susan Boyle has [...]
I had a ton of things to do today. All of these little errands had been building up for the past couple of weeks because I’ve been so busy with work that I haven’t had a chance to do anything else. So it was finally off to the post office, Wal-Mart, the grocery store, the [...]
Wow, how many more of these murder-suicide stories are we going to see in upcoming months — with all the blame going on “the economy”, of course.
There have been several similar acts committed recently, and we can probably chalk the Parente family up in the same way. Though Baltimore County police are not releasing [...]
I always read that you’re supposed to check your credit rating ever once in a while, regardless of whether or not you’re shopping around for financial services. The reason is that doing so is supposed to help you spot fraud or identity theft before things get too far out of hand, because loan applications and [...]