Mostly, the media covers men in the military, showing their kids running into their arms when their dad suddenly appears home on leave. Imagine being a mother deployed far away from your kids, and imagine her feelings on Mother’s Day.
I invite you to remember these military moms by signing this thank-you card sponsored by the USO. They won’t be able to be with their kids this coming Sunday, but at least they’ll know that we care about and appreciate them.
Here are ten cool inventions that people have come up with to help the Earth. They clean our environment, save wildlife, get rid of our trash, etc. Want some air-ink? How about an edible water blob? Want to turn tires into grass? Check out these and other ideas in this video.
Thinking of moving? This chart shows you how much you’ll have to earn per hour to be able to afford a two-bedroom home. Oklahoma and Alabama are the least expensive.
In today’s Thursday Thought, Barack Obama warns what happens when we wait around for somebody else.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama
Now I’m getting offers for a “Home Equity Conversion Mortgage,” although it sure seems like a “Reverse Mortgage” to me. Rules are the same. If you’re considering one, figure out if you can live with those rules (from AAG mailing):
By the way, you still pay interest, because it’s still a loan. And your income taxes get complicated.
Pass on this information to all your older friends and relatives before they sign on to one of these “fantastic deals”!
Today is May Day. When I was a child, it was so much fun! Our school put up a May Pole, and kids held onto long colorful streamers and wound their way around it. We didn’t have a May Queen, like in England, although my friends in Catholic School celebrated the Virgin Mary as Queen. We sang songs and did dances and enjoyed this traditional spring festival. We weren’t aware that May Day (called “Labour Day” by some back then) had been co-opteded by Communists and Socialists into an International Workers’ Day in the late 1800s. And we were many years away from today, when the labor movement has claimed the day as its own, celebrating it yearly to point out injustices people face in the workplace. When I was a child, I was blissfully unaware of prejudices and inequalities. When I was a child, I was powerless to do anything about it.
Today, I am an adult.
