Latinos in 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 [...]
Catholic
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, [...]
It isn’t rape if he is handsome
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 [...]
Blog Action Day
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 [...]
lost in translation
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 [...]
I should be ashamed
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 [...]