Elections
My arms hurt
From an afternoon spent in the bookstore and what an excellent adventure it was! One afternoon last week I took some used books to a local book store; setting my books on the counter, I wandered off while the book lady perused my items. I forgot to pick up a basket and instead carried a [...]
It’s all about the numbers…
895 days ago, I became a U.S. citizen. This morning, I was the 89th voter in my precinct. It was my 4th opportunity to vote! We don’t expect our elected leaders to give us half an effort. We don’t hire them to serve half the people. Yet about half of us are expected to skip [...]
Donate Halloween Candy to our Troops!
If your house is like mine, you’ve got leftover Halloween candy. Candy we don’t need. Candy we don’t want. Candy that probably will end up at the office or thrown away. Did you know there’s an organization that would be HAPPY to get your leftover (wrapped) Halloween candy? And that this candy is shipped to our [...]
Sorry, Frosty, not yet
(On 11/1/2010 this post was chosen as one of the best of 363,029 bloggers, 592,629 new posts, 389,435 comments, & 101,298,107 words on WordPress.com. Thank you all!) What’s worse? The never-ending political ads or the arrival of Christmas music on radio stations today? I love Christmas music. Love, love, love it! Have scads of it. Perry. Andy. [...]
Ready to vote?
We’re one week from the mid-term elections on Tuesday, November 2nd. Not sure who’s running for local office? Want to take a look at your ballot ahead of time? Need more information on candidates? Not sure of your precinct #? I live in MI and found this helpful link.. perhaps other states are offering it [...]
High wind warning?
The weather guys are tripping over themselves with repeated warnings of high winds expected later today. Is it all the political hot air flying around? Or … could it be the winds of change?
A new citizen votes .. again
I am excited to vote on November 2nd. Because I can count one hand the number of times I have been able to do so. I became a citizen two years ago and that moment stands as one of my proudest. Choking back tears, seventy-eight of us (from thirty-four countries) took the oath of allegiance [...]
