The thunderous noise heard throughout the house was not due to the winds howling through bending palm trees during our recent storm, but to my overjoyed son jumping up and down screaming , “I'm gonna be a Boilermaker!!”after reading an acceptance e-mail which landed in his In box at 7:48 PM PST from Purdue University. [...]
Hooray For Hollywood!
January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hooray for Hollywood! The score for three movies I watched with my family over the Holidays is a 10!! Having the opportunity to catch up on a lot of movie going experiences was pure joy, especially when the offerings are of the quality I witnessed in The Blind Side, Invictus and Sherlock Holmes. Though we [...]
AMERICAN GIRL HOMELESS DOLL FOR $95!?
September 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Of all the cockamamie marketing ploys I've come across lately, this one has to top them all. The Pleasant Company and Mattel's marketing brain power came up with the latest American Girl Doll: Gwen Thompson, the Homeless Doll. She's blond, she's wearing a crisp white dress, brand new flip-flops, and like all American Girl Dolls she comes with her own story — [...]
TIME WARNER CABLE'S CLOTHES 4 A CAUSE CAMPAIGN
July 9, 2009 By 2 Comments
The community-minded folks at Time Warner Cable would like to let you know that they are running a wonderful campaign called Clothes 4 a Cause, with the specific purpose of collecting business suit donations to assist individuals enrolled in the Alpha Project, an organization dedicated to help end homelessness through job training programs for men and women. The business suit [...]
