I just finished reading “What Was I Thinking: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories”, a collection of very funny essays about, yep, bad boyfriends. It brought up some painful memories, for sure, but was a great thing to read post-Valentine’s Day. The authors are trying to get a new holiday started, Come to Your Senses Day, to [...]

I’m waiting for my husband to get back from picking up my in-laws at the airport. My house is never so clean as right before they arrive. Cleaning the stove itself was a 4.5 hour project involving three different (nontoxic) cleaners, about six different scrubby sponges and a toothbrush for in between the buttons. Obviously, [...]

Hi, we are Global Sistergoods and we are here to recruit you.
We entered StartUp Nation’s “Leading Moms in Business” contest, and we really, really want you to vote for us. We are not sure if we win anything. In fact, we probably don’t. But we are kind of competitive. Maybe really competitive. Just the *idea* [...]

The United States Peace Corps was established today, March 1, in 1961 by Executive Order 10924. John F. Kennedy Jr., first proposed the idea during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan, asking students to give two years of their lives to help people in the developing world. Since 1960, more than 195,000 people [...]

We’ve partnered with CARE to help them promote an amazing film about resilient women, A Powerful Noise. 450 theaters across the country will be screening it in honor of International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 5 (note: IWD is actually the 9th). We’ll be attending the Portland screening at 8 pm at the Lloyd Center [...]