Archive for the 'Community' Category

From Webkinz to Backyard Safety

My daughter loves Webkinz. She has a lil Unicorn and a Pink Poodle and a Yorkie (although I think it is a Maltese). I set up an account for myself and bought the lil Pink Poodle. That way I can send my daughter mail and gifts. It gives her some safe interaction on the site.
Since […]

Silver Alert System

There have been quite a few stories in the local news lately about elderly people who have disappeared. Some have wandered off; others have fallen into harm’s way. In all cases, there has been great community cooperation.
Since Florida happens to have more people over the age of 65 than any other state and out over-85 […]

Pretty Arrogant

Here is a story about two teens who live near me. Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams were escorted off of Southwest Airline’s flight 3600 from Tampa on February 14 after it landed in Los Angeles.
The girls claim it is because they were too pretty.
Huh?
Southwest says it is due to the fact that Williams used profanities […]

Welcome to the United States

My ex husband recently became a United States citizen. It took over 19 years of doing things the right way, the legal way, and using an immigration lawyer to make it happen. The laws changed several times over the years that he was working on his naturalization and if it had not been for his […]

Linked In

I finally got off my duff and put my profile up on the Linked In site. I’m not as into the social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, because I suppose I’m past the place in my life where I want to meet tons of new people for strictly social reasons. I am more into […]

Women Protecting Women

Women talk. You know they do. You can be washing your hands at the sink in a public restroom next to another woman and both leave knowing about the other’s childbirth stories or sinus infections. In local communities, women tend to disseminate information about men that should be avoided at all costs. If you are […]

Anyone Can Create a Wiki

The internet has changed the way we do research. How many of you go to a wiki service first thing when you want to learn about a new topic? A wiki is a site with pages that anyone at all can edit and add to. So, you end up with great collaborative efforts and mingling […]

The Nature of Friendships

We all have our circle of friends that live near our homes, or perhaps people who we knew in school or in places where we used to live. I may not talk to most of my fiends daily, but the fact is they are always there and only a phone call away.
I think that the […]

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