Monthly Archives: March 2008

Wishes are wonderful

When you wish upon a star……is it ever granted? When you close your eyes…just what is it you are wishing for ? Is it for yourself? Your children? What would you say if I told you that a wish can be and is granted every 40 minutes of every day, to a child with fragile…

A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small. A Childlike Lesson in Life Horton Hears A Who

Maybe you’ve seen it? Maybe you’ve read the book? Maybe Horton Hears a Who is just the thing to spark a much needed social debate. I’ve read this book to my kids zillions of times, and I mean ZILLIONS! They love it, and for some reason I never seem to get sick of it either….

(Hallmark)Red Introduces The Mali Mud Bag

I just love this idea. For me, there is nothing better in this world than empowering women. And Hallmark and (Product)Red have done just that. The Mali Bag is described as Bogolan (or mud cloth), a traditional fabric art form, is handmade by artisans in Mali, West Africa. The cloth is hand woven into strips…

Outta Sight, Outta Mind: Landfills

It is great to have my garbage picked up every week and “disappear”. Yet, I wonder how responsible it is on my part to toss trash week after week without a second thought? The EPA estimates that in 2006, there were 1754 landfills in use in the United States. Most landfills are highly regulated pieces…

Fishful Thinking

Think about these two questions. Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Do you seek out the positive in situations or dwell on the negative? It’s amazing how things that we were taught as children come floating back to memory. When I was a very small child, I recall my grandmother singing a song to…