Some Favorites For You!

To the right of my blog you'll see a link to the Alive Campaign Blog. The Alive Campaign was started by a few Baylor students when their friend told them he wanted to kill himself. They were so moved by his story, they began a campaign to rise awareness about suicide prevention. Their mission is to ride their bikes from Waco, TX to Anchorage, Alaska. This is roughly a 4500 mile bike trek. You should check out their blog on the right and keep up with their story.

Secondly, I want to share with you a book that might be my favorite of all my summer reading. It's called "Same Kind of Different As Me" and is written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Click the picture on the right to view it on Amazon.com). 

The book is the true story of a homeless man who grew up sharecropping and an international art dealer from Fort Worth, TX and their unlikely friendship. It is a very moving book. But be warned, I bawled through the last 100 pages, so keep a box of tissues around. I started at 6 p.m. on Tuesday night and finished it around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. I could NOT put it down!! I highly recommend it to everyone. 

It's Official. .

I am officially a Master of Education! I've finished my time in graduate school, closed my residence hall at Texas A&M for the last time, told my staff good-bye and moved out of my apartment. I had intended to write one last time before I left College Station, however life took over. I ended up hanging out with my cohort in my last evenings in BCS instead.

Now I'm back in Kentucky for the summer. I brought home a box of books that I've been wanting to read and I'm already on number three. The weather at home is perfect. It's been cool, in the eighties, and sunny (except for today). I have had my window open since I've been home and I forgot how wonderful sleeping in a slightly chilly bedroom is!! I am glad that I get to see some spring while I'm home.

So far I've spent the last two afternoons with my friend Grace at coffee shops, playing Phase 10 and chillin' on our Macs. The summer plans include much of the same. They include- Sleeping until noon most days, reading all the books I brought home, playing lots of Phase 10, dog shopping and taking some pictures. I also need to come up with a jazzy new name for this blog since I will no longer be in graduate school. I'm open for suggestions!!

Speaking of pictures here's a slideshow of hooding and the fun surrounding it:

Really?

I am watching the evening news and one of the democratic candidates said:
"You don't pick a president to make speeches, you pick a president to solve problems and take care of you and your family."

Really? I'm pretty sure that I don't elect a president for those reasons. I'm pretty sure the president is basically a figure head who is in most cases, in capable of actually doing anything. He or she can stop things from happening, which is more why I vote for a president.

Call me crazy, but I don't expect or desire the president to take care of me or my family. Call me Miss Independent, but I prefer to make those decisions by myself. And as far as those who aren't able to do that, they should be taught how to fish. Seriously. I'm scared for the future of our country. Socialism here we come. . . (and we all know how well that's worked out for people who've tried. . . )