Teacher’s Wishing Well

School is about to begin and the Back to School sales at Target will be irresistible. How can you help your local schools? Think about picking up a few extra items for your local school! Teachers spend a ton of their own money (hundreds of dollars), and picking up a few extra items can help…

Sexist Pig or Inept Interviewer?

This blog/rant is inspired by Matt Lauer’s non-apology follow up for asking Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, ” Given the pressure of this job at General Motors, can you do both well? (Meaning being a CEO and a good mother?) His non-apology was defensive drivel, IMHO, “If a man had publicly said something similar…

Win What You Do Enter!

I must have been really hungry when I signed up for culinary arts entries for the San Mateo County Fair because I ended up entering 9 food items (3 of which were brownies). As I perused the fair catalog deciding what to enter, I kept notes as to what I might want to enter and…

A Trip Through the West

Today I have a guest blog by my great grandmother, Gloie Mae Flora. No, she’s not alive still, but this is a write up of her notes from her drive from Elwood, Indiana to Seattle, Washington for the 1962 World’s Fair. I love the agricultural observations throughout her notes. The language and notations are a…