This post is sponsored by the Florida Prepaid College Board, through my role as a Believer Blogger. All thoughts are my own. I was sitting on my daughter, Tenley’s, bed last night chatting, when my eyes fell on this pillow which all the grandchildren in our family had been given for Christmas many years ago. I […]
A Series for Women Like Me: The Other F Word
This post is sponsored by “The Other F Word.” All opinions are my own. It’s official. I have now watched my first Amazon Streaming series. It’s a running joke among my friends, and documented in my Spin Sucks inquisition, that I am a streaming video late adopter. Very late. But there’s hope, and in this case […]
Women, Don’t Wait. Change Our World Now!
I was recently participating in a thread on Facebook. It was a thread on the personal page of someone who is a co-moderator of one of the extremely fun running-based Facebook groups I’m in. I knew if he asked for honest political opinions, and requested that those of us participating in the thread be respectful, we […]
Banned Books Week 2016
Banned Books Week gets me fired up every year, and that passion has only grown since last year’s Curious Incident Incident. Since 2014, I have participated in the Banned Books Week Virtual Readout (which, by the way, can be done anytime — not just during BBW). In 2014, I read from Captain Underpants; in 2015 […]
Ten Florida Families to Win College Scholarships
Never will another Florida State University student spend their freshman year where I did: coping with the thrills, disappointments and sheer journey into the unknown brought on by spending the year in Kellum Hall. Kellum Hall has been razed. A patch of gravel (pictured above) is all that is left on the footprint of a place where […]
Aging and HIV: Why One More Test Matters
“Are you HAVING sex?” My gynecologist asked me this question at a routine checkup to monitor my use of hormones to deal with the symptoms of early menopause. In my head, my answer was, “well I’m married so why do you need to ask?” But his question indicated that he was making no assumptions. Me saying the […]