BlogHer Boston - I heart you!!

It's been a wonderful whirlwind... and I'm quite sad to say that tomorrow I'll be packing up and leaving. I feel like I've barely gotten to see what's around me in this beautiful part of the country (GAWD the fall leaves are pretty). I've taken very FEW pics... however this has been so fabulous a trip I can't complain!

Two months ago, I started looking into savings accounts with a better return than the promising-turned-dismal AEX Index-coupled account I had. This was for money my husband and I didn't need right away, but didn't want to risk. We'd chosen our bank's Amsterdam Exchange Index account two years ago, when it was averaging 4.5% yearly interest. And that's what we averaged the first year on money we set aside for six months at a time (in six equal monthly units to spread risk).

from a friend at dhbc blog..

apologies to R.E.M.

“As best I know, I have a gift for
teaching, a talent for writing,and no prophetic abilities beyond that
of any other Christian.”  LarryBurkett “The Illuminati”  (I am
currently re-reading this book. Burkett was a Christian Economist ). 
Although “The Illuminati” is awork of fiction, it pretty much dovetails
with what is happeninginternationally in the global economic arena.

By DENENE MILLNER, editor-in-chief of www.mybrownbaby.blogspot.com

My in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chiles, cut a fineportrait this weekend, walking down the aisle of a candle-lit room at The WHotel here in Atlanta—she in a stunning champagne gown, with an armful of callalilies; he in a sharp tux, his fingers interlocked with his wife’s. BrianMcKnight’s ballad “Never Felt This Way” filled the air, serving a fittingtribute, as if Brian wrote the lyrics specifically for this posh, goldencelebration: There will never come a day/You’ll ever hear me say/That Iwant, and need to be without you/I want to give my all. And when they reached that magical place at thealtar, with their children and grandbabies and family and friends surroundingthem, we all lost it like we were at a Janet Jackson concert—alternatelywhooping and hollering and clapping and crying like we were a gang of groupiesgone mad.

We had good reason to act this way. Walter and HelenChiles, you see, were celebrating their 50th anniversary.

That’s five decades, dude. Since the two eloped inthe living room of his sister’s home on September 29, 1958, men walked on themoon, black folks waged the Civil Rights Movement, America’s fought in fourwars, and, by God, the Wu Tang Clan broke up. But through it all, Helen and Walterhave remained together, a testament to their generation, which, it seems, hasmade much more of a point to practice what it preached at the altar: Forbetter, for worse, for richer and for poorer, through sickness and in health,‘til death do us part.

For Helen and Walter, you see, being together—stayingtogether—is as important to them as breathing air. It’s not an option. It’sjust what you do.

 Welcome to the Good Fortune Scopes for the week of October 12th - 18th.

MAY GOOD FORTUNE SHINE ON YOU ALWAYS!

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Today (October 11, 2008 for those of you without a Calendar), is National Coming Out Day.  In fact, it is the 20th Annual National Coming Out Day.  Twenty years ago today, two men, Dr. Robert Eichberg and Jean O'Leary, celebrated the first Coming Out Day in honor of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights one year earlier.  NCOD is a day to raise awareness of the GLBT community and the gay rights movement.

I am entering week 3 of successful bed rest following a week's vacay in the high-risk perinatal unit for preterm labor. Baby's in good shape, as we hit 36 weeks this week. Meanwhile, I have been snuggled up to my laptop, obsessively reading labor and delivery nurse blogs like this one, soaking up their stories about birth and preterm labor. Specifically, I'm interested in how I ended up here.

I know a girl whose parents have
recently passed away. Her only sister is disabled and lives in a
nursing home and she has no other living relatives. She speaks sadly of
her upcoming birthday because she is afraid that no one will remember.
This girl is not living in a foster home; in fact, she is living with
her husband of 18 years. But, the emptiness is still there because her
mother is not.

A frumpy old woman pinned me into a bridesmaid dress that was made
out of what I can only describe as scratchy, crappy, cheap material.

She said I looked beautiful, but we both knew I actually looked ridiculous.

When the Fiance had said, “I don’t want anyone to look prettier than me!”, she wasn’t kidding, and she was going all out to make sure no one did.

I felt like I’d borrowed my mum’s dressing up clothes, and I looked like I had, too.

My middle school son came home from
his church small group with an unusual homework assignment : find a
“manly” man. Not just any manly man will do -this must be a “cool dude”
on a TV show. Is there such a creature? A cool, manly man on a TV show