Posts Tagged politics
Tell us where to go.
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on January 12, 2010
Our family is planning to embark on a monumental road trip over the summer of 2010, a kind of “Job Hunt U.S.A.,” and we need your help. We are not looking for tourist traps. We are looking for real information about your area of the country. We want to know what the job climate is […]
From Farmers’ Markets to Preventive Medicine
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on October 21, 2009
I have several friends who are very into homeopathic medicine, natural cleaners, home remedies, organic foods, and all kinds of bio-ethical decisionmaking. I totally support that, see the wisdom in it, and, frankly, would love to adopt it all myself. I believe that theory that claims “when sin, and with it disease, entered the now-tainted […]
Job changes
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings, Poetry on October 18, 2009
This poem is, to me, what snugly fits with this column because my faith often fuels my writing, and God gave me my techie husband, so it is fitting on several levels that I give God the glory for where I am now. Written at a very different time in my life, this poem reflects what […]
Direct Questions
Posted by Leslie in Beyond Meanderings on October 15, 2009
While I teasingly compared Obama’s redirection of questions during his campaign to redirecting toddlers in order to avoid a tantrum, I think the bigger topic behind this is how people respond to direct questions. When someone asks a direct question, it requires a direct answer, yet we tend to try and get out of it […]
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A burgeoning writer and journalist, I am currently reporting for the Ozarks Sentinel newspaper. I wanted to create a place to talk about the pink elephants trumpeting in rooms across the globe.
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