When the weather is really lousy you might find yourself, as I did today, looking through stuff. Piles of things you've been meaning to get to but just haven't had the time. Those little pieces of thought, the sketches of dreams, profound thoughts written on a scrap of paper or a poem stuffed into a folder. Little bits of dream matter...what to make of them, and do they matter?

When the weather is really lousy you might find yourself, as I did today, looking through stuff. Piles of things you've been meaning to get to but just haven't had the time. Those little pieces of thought, the sketches of dreams, profound thoughts written on a scrap of paper or a poem stuffed into a folder. Little bits of dream matter...what to make of them, and do they matter?

It's so hard when you come home with a newborn. My first baby was so colicky that she cried for four months straight. I couldn't even imagine a peaceful, happy, contented baby. But one night she stopped crying. She stopped just for a couple of minutes, and I told myself "remember this moment, remember this time" I really locked it in my mind. I hardly remember anything else about her being a newborn but that moment, that sweet moment is mine forever...

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest places on earth. Twenty thousand people a day die there of thirst and starvation. One amazing woman has identified a real workable sustainable solution. She identified that 80 percent of the farmers in Africa are women, and mobalized them to plant trees. Women are the caretakers and the keepers of the womb of humanity, the womb of humanity is the Earth

Scientific American's September 2005 Special Issue has an amazing article by Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a member of the United Nations Millenium Project. This Project's goal is to half extreme poverty by the year 2015.

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest places on earth. Twenty thousand people a day die there of thirst and starvation. One amazing woman has identified a real workable sustainable solution. She identified that 80 percent of the farmers in Africa are women, and mobalized them to plant trees. Women are the caretakers and the keepers of the womb of humanity, the womb of humanity is the Earth

Scientific American's September 2005 Special Issue has an amazing article by Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and a member of the United Nations Millenium Project. This Project's goal is to half extreme poverty by the year 2015.

Another day and another young mother is found beaten to death, a victim of domestic violence. This 24 year old woman left a toddler and a four month old infant orphaned.

Maybe it's time to think about marriage like driving a car. You take a course and a written test so Marriages don't have to crash and burn. Then people might know how to get off the road of marriage with out violence.

In my continuing effort to dialog with people from around the world, I am pleased to feature "Josh In Japan". Josh is on active duty with the US Navy and also runs a top rated podcast all about Japan. Join me in an enlightening conversation and a really informative perspective from Josh, about Japan, and what it's like for an American immersed in the local culture in The Land of the Rising Sun.

Another week and again the age old question... What's for dinner? For me, and most mom's it's the 'Dilemma of my Life'. If you ask kids what they want they'll tell you cake. But you can't give them cake. I'm out of ideas. Today I tried something new. How did it go you might ask? Well,I'm onto dinner number two today. It's been that kind of Monday.