The February 6 issue of the New York Times included an inspiring article about a program that educates poor girls from fundamentalist areas of Egypt. They learn English, learn about the United States. It cost about $2000 over two years to teach a 15-yr-old girl named Yousra Yousef to speak English.… Read full post »

Tuesday I was told I wasn't getting a bonus. I've been with the company for nearly two and a half years and have always had a bonus. It's nothing big and after taxes boils down to about $350. Still..... Now the reason for that was because of my ranking in the… Read full post »

Once again the Bushies have shown they have NO respect. Between Dick Cheney basically suggesting that President Obama is clueless when it comes to foreign policy and Andrew Card complaining about his shirtsleeves - HIS SHIRTSLEEVES!!!!!! - I've had it with all of them. The drama over th… Read full post »

The siren songs of digital and paper scrapbooking, not to mention photography, writing, reading like crazy not to mention internet surfing all compete for my attention. I love taking my camera out and taking pictures of just about anything. Also, I love the many varieties of paper and vintage ephemer… Read full post »

I'm one of the lucky ones of late: I'm employed. That doesn't mean that I can't complain about the idiocies that go on. We are in a "metric-driven environment." Now, I understand metrics and their importance in evaluating people. The problem with my company is that they don't apply them fairly.… Read full post »

A lot of people including me would like to see Bush and pretty much his entire administration prosecuted for war crimes. I believe that they LIED about the so-called intelligence. I think they used September 11th as the ultimate excuse for trashing the Constitution and starting the war in Iraq. I… Read full post »