Well, yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday nicely segues into today’s Throwback Thursday so I can share photos from the second half of our 15 day Viking Ocean Cruise to Spain, Italy and France. We’re throwing all the way back to, oh, a couple of weeks ago when we sailed on the amazing Viking Star.
One of the highlights of competing in Blogger Idol — other than, ahem, winning it! — was becoming friends with one of my fiercest competitors, Liesl Testwuide. And one of the highlights of meeting Liesl was being introduced to her son, Augie, a budding filmmaker whose short documentary, Four Dead in Ohio, moved me to…
Get ready for the ride of your life! Thanks to great performances by Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, Unstoppable offers a thrilling, gripping drama with an underlying human story that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. A runaway train carrying hazardous chemicals threatens a number of small surrounding communities…
Fast Fact: Some analysts estimate that since the 2003 creation of the Kimberley Process, which was designed to certify the origin of rough diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases do not fund violence, blood diamonds still comprise about 15% of the global diamond trade. Fast! Act!: Buy diamonds from registered members of StopBloodDiamonds.org, who have…
One of the women we’ve always admired most is Jane Goodall, whose landmark study of wild chimpanzees under the mentorship of Dr. Louis Leakey became the foundation of primate research, redefining the relationship between humans and animals. Goodall’s half-century of groundbreaking work will be celebrated on September 27 with Jane Goodall Live, a live big-screen…
