October 28, 2007

Latinos in Ohio

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Latinos, Ohio

Children Services looking for a few good foster homes
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
Franklin County also hopes to recruit more prospective foster parents from the growing Somali and Latino communities. “We’re trying to stay ahead of the curve there,” Cobb said.
Ohio leaders dealing with immigration issues visit border
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
He says he’s seeing large amounts [...]


October 25, 2007

Catholic

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, personal

One of my phrases I often repeat is “I am fornicating, gay advocate, planned parenthood working, pro-choice, Catholic”.
I really dislike it when people think that because I am Catholic, I am not liberal. Or that because I am liberal I am not Catholic.
A formerly Catholic friend of mine who now calls herself an atheist, [...]


October 19, 2007

It isn’t rape if he is handsome

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Politics, womyn

I am tired of hearing “He is a [insert adjective--handsome, wealthy] man, he could have any woman he wants.  It makes you wonder why someone would accuse them of rape.”  MSNBC just had someone on saying that about David Copperfield.  We heard the same thing about Kobe Bryant.  I believe innocent until proven guilty but [...]


October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : Ohio

In honor of Blog Action Day I will write a short post on a local environmental issue.
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own [...]


October 11, 2007

lost in translation

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : language

I had read  the book Steppenwolf and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, when I picked up his book Strange News From Another Star.  It was one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.  The imagrey was so amazingly beautiful that I began to sob with the realization that if it was this beautiful in [...]


October 11, 2007

I should be ashamed

Posted by : elenamary
Filed under : personal

On Friday night, I was standing on my porch waiting for a friend to come up the front steps when instead a VERY intoxicated man did.  He was a young male in his mid-twenties, Caucasian, wearing a polo shirt  ball cap, and blue jeans.  He was on his phone trying to figure out how to [...]


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