Monthly Archives: October 2008

Thanks For Those Lids!

Send them to MFFO if you want to receive the monthly prize of the month. MFFO/ Save Lids to Save Lives 27943 Seco Canyon RD #533 Santa Clarita, CA 91350 OR Send them directly to Yoplait at: Save Lids to Save Lives PO Box 420704 El Paso TX 88542-0704 TEAM CODE on back of envelope…

Can you spare ONE can of vegetables?

 These are truly unsettling if not down right frightening times.  The U.S. finanical crisis has vast, long-term, global implications.  Our families, our neighbors, our friends are all scared at least to some degree.  Uncertainty about our future can be all consuming.  I was at a community meeting the other day when I heard the head of…

We Begin With A Lie

This is a short five minute film about the Massacre at Murambi. There are horrific images throughout. But, you can not, should not, turn your head away from Genocide. This happened over 14 years ago, and it is happening today in Sudan. Watch, learn, and then Do Something. Stop Genocide Now Save Darfur Do Something…

Filtering Decoded…

I’m looking at my water just a little differently today.  Perhaps a better way of stating this is that I’m more than a little grateful for the water filter; a contraption that sits under my kitchen sink and has it’s own tap. The technician who installed it tells us that it will filter out 95% of…

Blog Action Day 2008 “Poverty Is Not Created Equal”

I wrote this post on February 14, 2007. It changed me. I believe this single post helped me evolve into the woman I am today. The amazing thing is, I have changed since then. I have been to Kenya twice since that February and I have seen this kind of poverty up close once again….