Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.~Sam Ewing (except, mine will be in snowy MA! :)

# of households that reported struggling to buy enough food in 2008 jumped 31% over the previous year: http://ow.ly/D4XB

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Day 14/The Great Illness of 2009: Today ears popping. Are they clearing? or is it a cruel joke that my ears are playing? +side? not dizzy.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Congrats to Our Catholic Sister. Highest Honor -- Papal Medal -- http://ow.ly/uU8U -- PLS RT? :)

Congrats to Catholic Sister. Highest Honor -- Papal Medal -- http://ow.ly/uU9a --->PLs RT? :))

Congrats to Catholic Sister. Highest Honor -- Papal Medal -- http://ow.ly/uU4a

This just in! Sister Marie Ann Brent, SHF honored by Papal Medal! http://ow.ly/uTXX Congratulations Sister!

1 of the worst feelings is feeling out of control & 1 of the most helpful things is ... encouraging children to be IN control-Mister Rogers

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding

Thanks for the FollowFriday to @lisagraas

Thanks for the FollowFriday to @lisagraas

What was your experience on October 17th, 1989?... http://ow.ly/uGpR

liking @hootSuit. can follow stats on my links, and post from diff. accounts. shrink links. all at one place.

Just added my name 2 others on earth asking Obama 2 act on climate change--Join here: http://ow.ly/uFkt

Nominate us for best use of Social Media by an NPO: Click here? http://ow.ly/uDFm Please RT ???

Way 15: Take a (Educational) Coffee Break: http://ow.ly/uDBt SHF-Sisters Wants Fair Trade @fairtradeusa

RT pls- October is domestic violence awareness month = http://ow.ly/uCB3

Catholic Sisters Want Fair Trade :: http://ow.ly/uCec ::

"Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes" YouTube Vid blew me away. She's amazing! (RT?) http://ow.ly/uCb9

thanks for the mentions! @TT @P0_P0 @harborofhope @LisaGraas

A Halloween greeting from my family to you!

I don't like people who steal from other people's mail boxes! gr.

I took @greenmtncoffee #fairtrade Quiz & won free Fair Trade coffee!. Check out http://tinyurl.com/ydr9x3b

Will u help for an inclusive Envir. Impact Study@ the Nev. Nuclear Test Site? Click & Sign / Earth Justice http://ow.ly/uq0J --> Please RT?

Will u help for an inclusive Envir. Impact Study@ the Nev. Nuclear Test Site? Click & Sign / Earth Justice http://ow.ly/up7f --> Please RT?

Will you help for a more inclusive Envir. Impact Study at the Nev. Nuclear Test Site? Click and Sign for Earth Justice- http://ow.ly/unL0

wow. i just got my Google Wave Invite. I'm excited.

i just got my google wave invite! yay!

Attention getting

As a single mom, sometimes i get down on myself about how i do things. I don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of. I don't have anyone being objective or at least offering counter ideas to be my balance.

My daughter is very smart. She has great social skills. Her attention span is a little shorter than i would care for. But i am not sure if it is a problem or just that she isn't quite five yet. It's hard for me to know when --or if-- she is paying attention to me, unless i get right down into her face and look her in the eye. I try toi get her to repeat back to me things, if it is important. But still, I wonder.

I am hoping to get her into Junior Kindergarten in January. I worry she will not be able to keep attention long enough to get her skills up for kindergarten. She has a hard time holding a pencil--I know she knows *how* but, it's that she doesn't *want* to most of the time.

I wonder if other single parents have these kinds of worries? I don't have anyone to talk it over with, so I don't know how to judge if I am overreacting or what.

While doing it alone is hard, I wouldn't change anything. While doing it alone can feel lonely sometimes, I love being with my daughter and getting all her attention. Now if i can just figure out how to get her to hold a pencil for more than about ten seconds!

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca

SHF opens a new site at: http://ping.fm/BLhRV

first post from Hootsuite. hopeing it works! :)

... loving autumn

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~Confucius (apparently many years before Yogi Berra)

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. ~Gloria Steinem

“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” -~Mahatma Ghandi

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. ~W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." ~Odgen Nash, born today, 1902.

::: Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb ::: In union there is strength. ~Aesop :::

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~I. Asimov, "Book of Science & Nature Quotations, 1988

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown

TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal. ~Israel Zangwill

EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites

EPA relents, discloses list of high-risk coal ash sites

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released a list of 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states with a high hazard potential, including 12 sites in North Carolina, seven in Kentucky and a large storage pond in Pennsylvania.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ~William H. Mauldin

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. ~Hendrik Willem van Loon

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. ~Morris Fishbein

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There's a microscopically thin line between brilliantly creative and acting like a gigantic idiot. So what the hell, leap. ~Cynthia Heimel

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb

I am a part of all whom I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. ~Destin Figuier

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), The Garden of Epicurus, 1894

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them. ~C.E.M. Joad

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor

The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. ~unk., Quoted: Mimi Guarneri, "The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing"

How can I export my passwords out of Google Chrome password folder (or my Explorer 7.) and into Keepass??? Anyone??? email me aSaP?

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety. ~Author Unknown

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda

Behind every successful woman... is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~Eric Hoffer

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb

Spending the day remembering my mom and thinking about my daughter. And knowing how blessed I am.

All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown

Poverty is the mother of crime. ~Marcus Aurelius

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde vs. Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952 ~Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields seems true, now that i've revisisted my life through boxes

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. ~Gilda Radner (i agree)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~Author Unknown

Twitter Mosaic!

Below is a mosaic of everyone that follows me on Twitter... I thought it was pretty cool. 

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