When did Michelle Obama write her first book? Michelle Obama: Michelle Obama was an advocate of strong and healthy families, LGBT rights, education and women empowerment. As a result, she is fond of volunteerism as her way of working with and serving the people. ...
If anything, we need tonotbe brought down because everything is so terrible. I was just talking to this one boy who came in and he was asking me what did I really think and I said, "Babe, I think the picture's bleak. I think everyone's gotta vote."...
50 houses felt insufferably long, but we did it. In between ringing door bells and trying to convince people of Warren’s electability (sob!) we talked about the coronavirus. Washington’s first case had come in late January but it seemed to have gone away but then suddenly that day, ...
“Last year I missed the deadline so ended up letting my youngest daughter use my Wacom tablet to design her own and I sent them off to print so she didn’t miss out, she loved them as did the kids at school and a few of the parents. This year my daughter actually asked me if ...
He’s brought me circumstantially to a lonely season alongside all of this, where I don’t have close friends around me like I did before. Wounded and alone. How pathetic. But in the middle of this season, wondering why God isn’t taking this from me and then questioning if he has ...
How did Playing with Pride start? Starting in 2014, we drove around the country, visiting LGBT and ally gamers in their homes to ask them why LGBTQ game events matter to them. In the process, we gathered intimate stories about how games helped people come out, find their tribe, become cl...
The first couple years I started to do scicomm talks in earnest, I did ALL the events listed above. Except since Bright Club didn’t yet exist in Ireland, I had to start it myself. It turned out pretty well, and I’ve gotten lots more opportunities and even career advancement since....
Wow. I had no idea. Does she realize that many Jews never left Israel, or never left the Middle East, or did not move to Israel from Europe but from Africa or Asia, or that Germany and Poland were never our true home? We were always from the Middle East. When we were in Europe,...
I had set out on my travels because I wanted to live instead of work. But as my blog took off, I found that the same old work/life problems were rearing their head again. If I wasn’t sightseeing, I was working. Though it didn’t make my trips less fun, it did make them less...
My parents have always been there for me, from Pre-K to college, and have stood by my side through the impossibly tough times. They tried for years to have a child, and when I finally was born, did everything in their power to make sure I would be okay. ...