Around the World in 80 Clicks

Is it possible to traverse the world finding mothers who blog in 80 clicks? Do mothers raising children in different places have different perspectives? Catherine at Her Bad Mother teamed up with her friend David to find out. She listed 5 things she enjoys about motherhood, linked to 5 other mom-blogs, and threw out the challenge...I copied this paragraph from Poppy Fields who tagged me and had

Tortoise Requiem

The girls came back up the hill from planting bulbs under the pine trees with their aunt, full of the tiny tortoise they had found. He was smaller than their hands, so tiny he must have been a baby. Unfortunately he was also rather dead.So small and so perfectly formed in every detail, his shell still soft, he must have been quite newly hatched when he came a cropper and perhaps got stranded on

Autumn Flowers

Flowers in soft-focus and now I know why – my whole world has been in soft focus for a while now and the optician has told me I need to start wearing glasses all the time, not just when my arms aren’t long enough. The silver lining is that maybe I’ll be able to see the details sharply once again: that sparkle in the children’s eyes, the sheen on a rose petal, the texture in a stone. The colours

The threads of a day

At breakfast my mind wandered away from the cereal packets: the day seemed to me like a loom with a variegated pattern growing into a chaotic and bright cloth. A background of deep green grass with white bobbles of ducks preening. Bright threads of children’s voices in azure and pink making a continuous stream of chatter, zigzagging and flowing through the duller muted greys and blues of a soft

When ya get a job, ya can get some of da bling

Howie Mandel...Youtube.com...and Buy.com. It's always pretty when he pushes a sale.

But unlike his million in a briefcase; which has dwindled to a half a million...and where did all the models go; he's getting better quality time in 30 seconds rather than minutes, in my opinion.

On a scale of 10 this time around, I'd give him a '7'...but not for lack of trying. He simply didn't ask me or any homeless cohorts to be included in his video.

That was a joke.

So when you end up getting a job, need some 'pretty pretty'...go give 'im a click. Tell him John sent ya...and he should have gotten 'MY' bling on.

Trust me, I can use all the prettyness I can get these days.

Eggs Excess

Bright early morning sunshine blinds the egg-hunters, as they line up on the stoep, armed with empty baskets to collect the Easter bunny's bounty. We managed to hold them off till 8 o'clock by letting them watch The Knight's Tale, which was enthralling enough to allow the Easter Bunny to hop around outside undetected.We egg-celled ourselves this year with an over abundance of eggs. The Easter

Take care of your butt on the streets

Toilet paper, personal hygiene wipes...lest we say...douche?

Face it, you can't use leaves on the streets...well, you could...but it wouldn't feel good, would it?

In the amount of times I've had the chance of seeing closets of items of personal hygiene items accumulated, I see a common factor each time: how quick they go. Constant rantings of locals claiming how 'good' the homeless 'have it'...they don't have any idea what they're arm chair quarterbacking looks like.

Ignorant.

Perchance time for a Colonix treatment?

I had the chance of connecting with a young man whose family was homeless alongside my own years ago. Father passed on, siblings with his grandmother, and now it seeming himself returned to the cycle. Entering into adulthood, alone, and vulnerable.

I'm beside myself on this one.

The only thing I can do is listen.

Can you?

John says: "Eat more meat, people!"

With the economy causing more homeless migration from the upper United States to warmer southern climates, there's also the issue of having to feed the masses at local meal spots.

It's always been tough for years, and it just keeps getting worse. The long term effect however isn't felt on the employees and establishments weathering these tough times for decades, it's in the health of the recipients of such services. Many being chronic, their health conditions worsen over time very fast.

Health supplements, such as those at HGH, can help, but their only part of the solution. Increases in creating more balanced diets will in time cost our American taxes less in homeless health costs than anyone realizes.

Or will admit.

Ten

It’s the end of term today! Hurray! It has drawn out long because of Easter being late and had started to feel like it would never end. In celebration summer has decided to make yet another come back and we have a suffocating day of 38C, all the more fierce for the cool weather we've enjoyed lately.Back from school with two of the girls’ friends in tow, we went straight down to the pool in an

Unemployment rate increases in Jacksonville

Many people having homes worry about their insurance rates. Homeless people worry more about the number of jobs available.

I've had the chance of speaking to someone this evening in northern New England, part of a couple preparing to migrate back here after attempting to locate work up the Eastern Seaboard.

Their story really hit me. The wife has multiple physical illnesses, the husband works whatever he can. Living in hotel rooms, they're finding; along with about 30 other families; the property owner sold off and they have to move within a few weeks, if that.

It's all about affordable housing. Homeless shelters don't have room for the migrating masses the next four years will be bringing further into Florida.

Tent cities will eventually be the way to go. Funnel the funds to central locations, and bring satellite services on laptops to the masses.

Imagine the amount that could be done just with the electric bills saved?