I do not smoke. I never have. The closest I ever came to smoking was, back when I was 9, I put a cigarette (unlit) in my mouth. It tasted nasty. That said, my entire family smokes. My grandparents, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my mother and my sister all smoke. They always have. [...]
November 7, 2008
There are very few blogs I frequent regularly. Even fewer that I regularly recommend to friends and family alike. And only one that I am mentioning here. CreditMatters Blog is that site. Filled with wisdom and sometimes tongue in cheek advice, this blog directs readers towards a better financial life and a well rounded view [...]
November 7, 2008
So, here we are again my old friend. We have a love hate relationship. In fact, I have that sort of relationship with so much in my life. So, as a way to purge all the bad and start fresh with my new scope on here and in life: my update! Home: I am going crazy. [...]
November 4, 2008
I cannot explain how I feel right now. It is a mix of excitement, pride, elation and fear. I am excited. This is the end of the Bush era, the only era I have known in my adult life and, in my opinion, a roving disaster. Not only that but this is the first time that [...]
November 4, 2008
It is that time again. Election day across America. As the sun comes up this morning, millions of Americans will crowd into small buildings all for the chance to exercise our most precious right: the right to vote. But is it that simple? What does our right to vote mean and does our individual vote [...]
November 3, 2008
She lived through the Great Depression, a World War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, and watched her grandson become the first African American to run for the office of POTUS under a major party nomination. Sadly, she died just one day before she may have seen him be elected to that office. Madelyn Dunham, grandmother to [...]
November 1, 2008
The suspense is unreal for me. For the first time in my adult life, we will be guaranteed to change Presidents. Sure, there was the 2004 election but President Bush was running and had a (shocking) chance of winning. This? No this is different. In 2000, only 534 votes decided the election. If just over 500 [...]
October 29, 2008
Alright so he is no FDR, but I tell you, Obama has a way of making me think everything will be alright. Tonight, just six short days before the election that will, regardless of its outcome, change the future of America, Obama gave his own version of FDR’s fireside chats. Watch the video below and [...]
October 28, 2008
I have to say it: I feel let down. I am not sure why I feel so let down because, lets be frank, we all know the media is biased and we all know the media is corrupt (sorry CM, you are exempt here). And we also all know that I am about a month [...]
October 26, 2008
I was fifteen when I got my first job. I worked as an appointment setter for a carpet cleaning company. There were four of us, and the work was dull and hard. I had to call numbers from a list of people and try to get them to set appointments to have their carpets cleaned. [...]
November 8, 2008
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