My good friend, Tastee, sent me this in an e-mail and I wanted to share it: My husband’s non-profit company LocalReuse (formerly Gigoit) is in the running for a $250,000 grant from Pepsi. This grant would be monumental in allowing them to fully develop this service which has the potential to do a lot of [...]
“Nikki didn’t die from lupus. Nikki died secondary to the complications of a failing health care system.” —Dr. Amylyn Crawford In late 2005, I was so sick from lupus, a few people later told me they didn’t think I was going to make it. Around the same time I was sick, a woman my age, [...]
Casey Johnson, an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, has died. (TMZ)
I wish people were less interested in Tiger Woods and his skanks and more concerned about the domestic violence that’s been happening in my community. Today, I donated a small amount to the Portland Women’s Crisis Line. Why? Because in the last month there have been seven murder-suicides in the Portland Metro area. That’s right, [...]
From The New York Times Magazine, Let Them Eat Tweets by Virginia Heffernan: “Connectivity is poverty” was how a friend of mine summarized [Bruce] Sterling’s bold theme. Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections. Anyone with a strong soul or a fat wallet turns his [...]
