Did you watch the royal wedding? I did. And loved every last minute of it! I let Maya watch the ceremony while we ate breakfast together before school on Friday morning… I didn’t think she’d be interested, but she was fascinated! Speaking of fascinating, weren’t those fascinators just beautiful? So many amazing headpieces. Not sure […]
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How to opt-out of Auto DMS on Twitter
If you’re active on Twitter, then you know just what an annoyance automated DMs (direct messages) can be. You may get so many of them that you miss important DMs because they’re buried in between so much junk! Plus, these DMs will clutter your inbox if, like me, you get updates by email and on […]
A Better World Facebook app
Can you imagine a world where everyone treats each other kindly? That’s the first question you’re asked when you start playing A Better World, a new Facebook app. Created by ToonUps, the purpose of this game, plain and simple, is to do good. As the year comes to a close and we’re all looking forward […]
Green Works Walk to School Challenge
6 weeks into Kindergarten, and Maya is loving it. She happily hops on the bus every morning, and wonders why she can’t go to school on the weekend as well! We’re just under a mile from her elementary school, so I debated walking to school once a week. I had it all planned out in […]
Time doesn’t heal all wounds
52 weeks ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning in mid August, my aunt Annie passed away from colon cancer. I don’t usually get hung up on dates… but it’s hard not to once you’ve lost a loved one. It’s been said that ‘time heals all wounds,’ but this isn’t the case at all. The wounds […]
City of Hope Women’s Cancers program
Did you know that each year, more than 290,000 women will be diagnosed with breast and gynecological cancers and more than 67,000 will pass away from these all-too-prevalent cancers? I lost a dear aunt to cancer almost exactly one year ago, and my grandmother is now dying of cancer as well. Although a solemn subject […]
