Soon after the Parkland shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, Everytown for Gun Safety tweeted that it’s the 18th school shooting of 2018. Which it is, according to their statistics. However, the Washington Post published a great article explaining why that number is wrong. According to the Washington Post, there… Continue reading Gun Control? Riddle me this, Batman…
Category: Causes
Chicken Soup For a Cause
I was already over the moon to have my story, “Kitty Bites,” included in Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Cat: 101 Heartwarming Stories about Our Happy, Heroic & Hilarious Pets, but when I got my author copies I was surprised to see something else: royalties from the sale of the… Continue reading Chicken Soup For a Cause
Dear Nicole Arbour Challenge
Today on Xfinity.com’s Homepage a couple of “Today in Video” video titles caught my eye: “Big Underground Discovery Near Stonehenge” (which I’ll be writing about on Haunt Jaunts), and “Star’s ‘Dear Fat People’ Video Sparks Anger.” The “star’s” picture was among the other pictures included with all the video titles. Part of why the title… Continue reading Dear Nicole Arbour Challenge
Action vs. Awareness
Yesterday afternoon I watched a local news report about how September is Hunger Action Month. The reporter spoke about how hunger has always been around and we’re not likely to get rid of it. Although there are ways to minimize it. He went on to explain by way of an interview with the CEO of… Continue reading Action vs. Awareness
60 Million People?
Have you been following the refugee crisis in Europe at all? I have. For some reason I’m as fascinated by it as I am repulsed. What got to me yesterday was the image they showed of a small boy’s dead body washed up on shore after the boat he’d been on sunk. (According to this… Continue reading 60 Million People?