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Be prepared for this Friday, February 27, 2015. It is International STAND UP to Bullying Day. International STAND UP to Bullying Day is a special semi-annual event in which participants sign and wear a pink “pledge shirt” to take a visible, public stance against bullying. The event takes place in schools, workplaces, and organizations in 25 countries across the globe on the third Friday of November to coincide with Anti-bullying week, and then again on the last Friday of February. Attention all teachers and students, read Swimming on the Moon by Nicholas Hill for International STAND UP to Bullying Day. This is a...

Basking in gratitude lately, I have repeated been advised to “knock on wood.”* I do know that what I am basking in is temporary; but for however many days, weeks, months, or years this will last, I am going to bask with my whole being.  “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”— Cynthia Ozick To live without worry, concern, or wanting/needing to spend extra amounts of times with friends and family because of illness is something I haven’t thought about before now. This is the first time in eight years that all of my...

In the process of updating our website, my communications with author Mike Marciniak inspired me today to get back to blogging. He has 157 blog entries and inspires me with his consistency as well as his words. We published his book, Living Your American Dream.The open arms of the man on the cover speaks to me as well as the words in Mike's book and on his blog. I believe that closing ourselves off from our dreams, our feelings, even our grief, can stifle our happiness.I contend that I can be happy to be able to (finally) grieve. I was numb...

Adam Powell's book, History's Worst: 2000 Years of Idiocy, was launched as a Kindle e-Book on Amazon on January 27, 2014. To celebrate the one-year anniversary, the book will be offered for FREE for two days: January 27 and January 28, 2015, so mark your calendars!  See his YouTube video here. Note the regular price is now $3.99 instead of the original $6.99—a sweetheart of a deal.As we are also nearing Valentine's Day, here are some excerpts from History's Worst: 2000 Years of Idiocy that depict the WORST VALENTINES IN HISTORY! Worst Valentines in History  1) Queen Zingua of Angola (reigned early 17th century)            ...

"Have some HOPE, believe in peace." Granddaughter Keanna wears a t-shirt with those words on them. Can we as adults believe in peace? My husband and I just got off a 14-day cruise in the Southern Caribbean, and over forty countries were represented on the ship. A common refrain on cruise ships is that if everyone lived in harmony as people do on cruise ships, world peace would ensue. And now at my husband's daughter's house, enjoying the family, the realities of the outside world are at bay. My step-daughter today complimented me in that I don't bring drama into...