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Please Call Your Mother!
Before I go any further, I want to wish every mother in the world – present, future, and (whether by love or paperwork) adopted, a very happy Mother’s Day. The world would not be what it is without you all. Thank you for everything you have done and everything you will do. Now, if you [...]
Read MoreSpend Every Weekend at the Renaissance Faire
Sometimes I feel like a superhero. No, hear me out, really. By day, I’m an excitable clerk at a state legislature, but by night, I’m a gamer. Yes, I admit it. I come home, pull out my video game player, and run Link around the Water temple, trying to remember which water level I need [...]
Read MoreAn Ovation for Equality
In our world, where it seems like the largest opposition to marriage equality is certain religious institutions, it’s refreshing to hear about a church that has collectively taken a stand for the rights of the LGBTQ community. It’s really no secret that the Catholic Church has a public stance against marriage equality. So I can’t [...]
Read MoreApparently, Women Exist.
So last night I was watching the Daily Show and Jon Stewart did a segment on whether or not the war on women was an actual thing, or a construction of the liberal media as Fox News said. To be fair, we have a startling habit in this country of declaring war against all sorts [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, Stories
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Tagged Human Rights, ten points, titanic, women's rights
The Bees are Disappearing!
The Doctor knew. You should too. The bees are disappearing and it’s a big, big problem.
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Stories
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Tagged bees, Dr. Who, food, honey, Protego Environment
Springing into Africa
Slow Food USA is teaming up with Slow Food International to help build 1000 gardens in Africa.
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Posted in Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Stories
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Tagged Fair Trade, food, gardens, Hunger, Slow Food
The Reaping is Color Blind
Likely, you’ve noticed that the books that get the most press attention are the ones that tend to be targeted by book challengers. So color me shocked when The Hunger Games landed itself on ALA’s Most Banned and Challenged Books list for 2011, coming in at a very respectable number three. It’s not the first [...]
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Posted in Hunger Games, Literacy, Stories
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The UN’s Concerned…So Why Aren’t We?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so, it’s likely that you’ve at least heard the name Trayvon Martin. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m one of those people who usually gets my news from Facebook or Twitter (I know, I know…), so I’m well aware as to [...]
Read MoreTake a Book, Return a Book
It’s a concept that anyone who has ever used a public library understands–take a book, return a book. It’s been drilled into your head ever since you got your first library card, or got the chance to check a book out of your school library. If you take a book, but don’t return it, you [...]
Read MoreClean Your Plate
“Finish your food. There are starving children in [insert country here], you know.” Did your mom ever use that line when you were growing up and the last thing you wanted to do was finish those lima beans on your dinner plate? Turns out she wasn’t so far off-base on that persuasive argument. According to [...]
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