A Heart as Big as Texas

Alison is a fellow blogger I've come to admire. I love her spunk, wit, grace and charm. And I love her open and generous heart.

Her dear friend's brother-in-law passed away very suddenly from sarcoma, leaving behind two young girls and huge mountain of medical bills.

I know first-hand the damage that cancer and it's piles and piles of bills can do to a family. And I also know first-hand the aching grief and gaping heart-hole a father's death can lay on a young girl's shoulders. My big ol' heart hurts for this mother and her children.

And in true, let's-git-r-dun Alison style, she and her friends have organized a fundraiser and even launched a website! I know they will bring good things to this family.

While I'm unemployed, I can't donate money but I will be turning one of my big hollow focal beads into a pendant for the live auction they are hosting.

If you can help this family in any way, please consider it...just follow the links in this post.

Note to Newscasters

I've expressed my disdain for the twit (formerly!!) known as Miss California before. But setting that aside, I wish to speak to the newscasters and producers of news shows out there.

Elections in Iran = News
Economy = News
Swine Flu = News
The Racist Attack on the Holocaust Museum = NEWS
Carrie Prejean - NOT NEWS!!!!!

But if you HAVE to talk about her, and apparently you do, PLEASE LEARN TO SAY HER DAMN NAME!

Prejean - French. Pronounced "PRAY john."

If I hear "PRE jean" one more time, I gonna have hit somebody!

Something to Ponder

Since I'm STILL looking for a job (and have a decent lead for the first time in ages!) and working on my writing blog, I thought I would post something to ponder.

I've been obsessed with Surviving the World - a blog of sorts - probably because I feel like I'm barely surviving and need all the hints and tips and tricks I can get! But that link makes a point very close to my heart about picking and choosing what to believe in.

It's a funny little site...click around, you might like it there. And don't forget to scroll down past the black board to the commentary on the lesson.

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I'm sort of amazed at the comments from my previous post. Thanks for letting me know.

I probably will be back but I need to get some other things going. In the meantime, my I suggest you check out my writing blog. Some of the things I'm putting up are really humorous. I'm posting old articles as I find them and by publication date.... So I'll try to put a header up with the new stuff.

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I feel like I need to take a break. I have too much on my plate and not enough hours in my day and this blog is becoming one more thing on my to do list. It's not that I don't enjoy writing...it's that I hate not getting comments. And the bloggers I started out reading barely post any more...or if they post, they no longer comment on my blog.

I wish that comments didn't matter... but they do. Otherwise, I feel like I'm just talking to myself and I do enough of that already.

And the fact of the matter is...I desperately need a job - well I have job. I need a way to make a living. And until I can find one, I feel I should concentrate on my business blogs. At least maybe they will help me sell something, either my jewelry or writing skills.

I don't know if I can keep my fingers "shut" for long...I've grown accustomed to this venue. But maybe I will channel that energy in returning to my writer's group. At least the feedback there is instant.

In the meantime, just know that the little creekhiker and I are on the trails...