Think your home is safe because you have a lock
(or locks) on your doors? Thin again. Take a look at the latest
trend in home invasion: lock bumping!
FromRecipe du Jour's
great newsletter: "U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers several
self-help emergency preparation guides. They can be found at www.ready.gov "
For those of us living in areas affected by hurricanes, FEMA can't do it all.
Start now.
Are you
prepared for emergencies? Here's why you should be, and how you
can protect yourself and your family if (and when) floods, windstorms, earthquakes
and other natural disasters - or more terrorist attacks - occur.
For women: are you or someone you love addicted
to alcohol, or legal or illegal drugs? This site may help get life back
on track: She's
In Recovery.
Jackie Metcalf turns in her
second installment
covering her second and third meetings as a new Police Explorer.
Jackie and I have two generations between us
- one reason I can never claim to understand her way of looking at things, our
shared "bad genes" non-withstanding. Her poetry since she was about nine
years old leaves one thinking... and thinking... See Everywhere, In Everything.
But that's what poetry should do, provoke another point of view.
If you haven't walked in another's shoes, you
cannot pretend to know how they feel. See
The Perfect Life by 10th grader Lila Dres.
From Jackie Metcalf: "Tomorrow. March 1st, is National Hug
Day. Forward this to 20 people by 12:00 tonight (or whenever you get the message!)
and you will get the greatest hug in your life tomorrow. It's not sure
who will hug you, but it is certain that will be someone that you're crushing...
and who knows, they might be crushing you too!!!!! But yo u can't send
it to the person who sent it to you - it's bad luck!!!!!!!!" Oh, well,
give it a try. If Jackie says it works, it likely will. Pass it
on.
Stressed over the holidays? Trying to
get everything just right? Worrying over relatives that you feel put you
down, or that intimidate you? Depressed, repressed and generally obsessed?
Put it in perspective. You must read this absolutely beautiful story
from my cousin Ginny: A Christmas
Message.
