Wordless Wednesday – Tank at the VFW

I meant to get this up last week for Armed Forces Day, but didn’t get to it, so I’m posting it for this week’s Wordless Wednesday. Thanks to all the men and women who fight for our country.

Can We Do More to Help Haiti?

New reports are coming out of Haiti. Reports of hunger, hopelessness, violence against women…It is heartbreaking to think that Haitians are fighting over things like sanitary napkins and don’t have a place to sleep at night where they’ll be safe. I know that there are, as hard as it is to believe, people in our [...]

Help for Haiti Project

Do you have a blog? Do you want to help out with the Haitian crisis? If so, you can combine the two to help even more. If you blog about what you did to help Haiti and leave a link to your post on her post about the project, Money Saving Mom and her husband [...]

Baby Drop Off Laws Aren’t Doing Enough

With every state in the nation having a very lenient baby drop off law in place, you’d think we’d stop seeing story after story about people throwing newborn infants in the trash. However, it still happens, as recently as last month. I don’t know if people don’t understand how easy it is to give up [...]

Sheila Dixon May Have Traded Her Political Office for Gift Cards

So, the trial over Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s misappropriation of gift cards is over. She has been found guilty of misdemeanor crimes. Now, I’m sure many people are applauding the conviction or may be disappointed that she wasn’t found guilty of felony theft. Here’s my problem: Why would someone in her right mind risk losing [...]

Will You Quit Your Job With National Health Care?

So many times over the years, people have mentioned a burning desire to quit a hated job. Then, when I ask what stops them, they bring up benefits. Not money. They’re earning enough with self employment or a part time job they love to make ends meet. But they know they can’t get individual medical [...]

Maryland Mamas Better Go Slow!

I’m all for safety. I don’t want kids who are walking to school hurt by a passing motorist. But I’m a librarian. I read 1984. So, no. No, I don’t think a law allowing cameras to automatically ticket anyone speeding within a five mile radius of a school or work zone is a good idea. [...]