Have you ever gotten hold of a dollar bill with a url stamped on it in red ink?: wheresgeorge.com “Where’s George” allows you to see where your dollar bill has been and where it heads off to after you spend it. The other day I got a dollar bill with the red stamp on it … Continue reading
Don’t you wish you could spend Valentine’s Day in Verona? Perhaps the most famous love story of all–Romeo and Juliet–was set in this small town in Italy. If you follow the narrow cobblestone streets through the village you’re likely to find your way to Juliet’s courtyard from Shakespeare’s tale. Through an archway there are messages … Continue reading
Today for Kappa Phi (a Christian women’s group I’m involved with on campus) we sold “Threads of Hope” bracelets in the Student Center. Impoverished women and children in the Phillipines make these bracelets and charity groups in the US can buy them to sell for $– sending the profits back to the families that made them. The … Continue reading
I don’t know if anyone told you by way of throwing beads at your head, but today was Mardi Gras! About a year ago at this time I was getting ready for my Mission Trip to New Orleans where we helped to rebuild a house with the St. Bernard Project. While we were in the … Continue reading
This morning I drove one of my friends to her internship at the Columbus zoo. Ohio is full of long, windy roads and the trip to the zoo was no exception. Sometimes it’s just nice to drive. Relax. Hit the open road. Okay, so the Columbus Zoo isn’t quite far enough from me to use … Continue reading
This is the first year I’ve owned a car, her name is Salsa and she’s a red prius. And this week she started slipping all over the road. I am proud to say that I successfully visited a Toyota Service Station for the first time on Friday and my car is back up and running. … Continue reading
It’s been a caffeine and M and Ms kind of day. I had over four hours of reading to do in my book about Tourism in New Orleans today–lots of sitting on my butt, but a nice mental break from school. Book review to come. Continue reading
So one of the best parts about Ohio Wesleyan University is their Theory-into-Practice-into-Theory Program. TIPIT for short. The way it works is, some big donors give money to the school and students and faculty can propose research grants or service grants to use the money each semester. Last semester I proposed a research grant to … Continue reading
Living in Ohio for four years I knew it would be snowy sometimes, but honestly, as a girl from New England, I had no idea how consistently it would snow here. In Boston we get periodic blizzards–I’m talking multiple feet of snow, no school today, don’t leave your house, kind … Continue reading
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