History in the Making

At the Zoo this coming Weekend--Baby the Planet Expo

2009-04-29T20:30:00.000-07:00

Check out the Columbus Parent Magazine Expo at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium this weekend, May 2 and 3. In its fifth year, the newest addition this year is adding another expo to it. I like to think of it as an expo within the "mother" expo. It is called Baby the Planet Expo and is all about teaching families how to be more eco-friendly with fun activities and information on alternatives. The kids will have a blast with this event, as there will be lots of hands-on activities for them to explore. I know that mine are excited!

My company, Addison's Compass, is proud to be an event sponsor for the Baby the Planet Expo, as proceeds go to a non-profit called No Child Left Indoors of Central Ohio. This focuses on encouraging and educating children and parents about the importance of being out of doors! Enjoy our planet, be kind to our Earth, get some exercise, and get back to nature. Nothing like the smell of fresh air. I'll be at this event too with an Usborne Books and More booth. These books are made from a sustainable source and I'll be showcasing their Go Green Kid Kit, which shows how to make recycled paper! Plus I'll have many more books on science, Earth, animals, and more.

Please go to www.babytheplanetexpo.com for more information and a run down of activities. Hope to see you there!

Event Program for Baby the Planet:
http://0101.netclime.net/1_5/287/120/019/BTP_Program.pdf

2009-01-12T16:57:00.000-08:00

One of things I decided to make myself even more busy with is selling these wonderful children's books that I was introduced to. I went to the Ashland Symphony's Dazzle shopping event in November and I purchased some books from a lady selling Usborne Books. The kids and I liked them so much that we wanted more, and after hearing all the benefits I decided to take the plunge and become and independent consultant. The books are colorful, fun, very educational, and reasonably priced. I would recommend them to anyone, so I thought then why not sell them? Plus people can have home parties, and it is always fun to plan parties. Seriously, I do think that anything we can do to help promote literacy and to keep encouraging the love of books in children is something that needs to be done.

In my blog, I plan to give some updates on how being a consultant goes. First, I need to find some people to host home shows, e-shows, join me in sales, or buy direct from www.ubah.com/z2837

2008-11-10T07:43:00.000-08:00

Why are Mondays always so grim? We hate Mondays because somehow it symbolically means we have to stop everything we love doing and go to a job that makes us feel confined. As Americans, it is in every one of our natures to want to be free, and Monday certainly epitomizes everything anti-free. I know the economy is in turmoil, and unemployment is at an all time high with major historical giants falling on hard times and giving pink slips just as the Holiday approaches. Maybe though, if you look at it differently, it could be a time of re-birth for Americans. Do what you love for a living. Think outside the box. America is no longer the place to come to find work punching in and out each day. It is still about hard work, but a different kind of hard work. Mental work. It is time for Americans to reach out and embrace their inner creativity and find a way to serve themselves. It is still the land of opportunity! As I was watching the Amazing Race last night in India, I thought to myself, look at how these people live. It looked like complete chaos. We are very lucky here that we still have so much dispensible income that we can buy all the items that keep popping up on the market. How can we complain when most are just trying to stay afloat in a certain "way of life." Playstations, and Xboxs, and Wiis, and $100 American Girl dolls, and plasma televisions, and cell phones and I-pods. How are we affording all of those luxuries? And those are just middle class luxuries. We have to think hard about what we have to offer this world and work 24 hours a day to network and make contacts and sell our ideas. It is amazing that we can have ideas and actually turn that into a bank deposit, isn't it? We are the luckiest people on the earth that we can find every way to make money if we just put our mind to it. We have the freedom to be OURSELVES and that is the greatest thing we could ever ask for. We are so blessed to have freedom to go to church, to blog about anything we want to, to create a masterpiece of art or literature on any subject we wish, to go out into the street as a woman without a man or a headcovering, to have enough to feed ourselves and our children at an "all you can eat buffet. America news reports may make it seem that we are "down in the dumps" but we need to realize just how lucky we really are.

Women and Our Right to Vote

2008-11-06T07:27:00.000-08:00

This year, I realized the importance of my vote more than ever. I guess in years past I just thought it was important to vote to put another number into the total towards winning of whatever candidate I hoped for. I felt that my one number could make a difference. I didn't realize just how proud I am to be a woman, until I joined Business and Professional Women. It isn't just the club or the people, but going to the national conference this year as Ohio's young careerist representative, allowed me to meet many women who know how important the woman's voice is and how important it is to keep working so our voice is heard. What? Yes, as Carolyn Maloney, D-NY, stated as I saw her speak and subsequently read her book, "Rumors of our Progress are Greatly Exaggerated." I realized, being as liberal and feminist and independent as they come, that I assumed all this time that women and men are on equal footing. I think I got knocked on my rear when I realized that women do still have to fight just to obtain being allowed the freedom to have a voice. Our state BPW this year has gone "Back to the Future" to teach and re-learn women's history. I learned that women before me like Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony and others were jailed because they wanted a right to vote and have a voice, they ate food with worms, were abused, ridiculed, and much worse, just so that I...and every other woman in the U.S....would be able to cast a vote on candidates and issues that would govern the country we all live and work in. But what about the ERA...the equal rights amendment...when will that pass? When will women have the rights of men? Sorry guys...but we do ten times the amount of work that men do, yet we have half the voice. Well, it is time for our voice to be heard again. It is time for our voice to become louder again. This year, the voices of women were heard around the nation for Hillary. We almost elected a woman to president of the United States of America! I just want every woman out there to feel proud of herself that she had the right to cast a ballot and not take for granted what all the women before us endured just so we could do so.

2008-11-05T16:47:00.000-08:00

Wow, I can hardly believe that Barack Obama won the presidency. History certainly has been made, with the first african-american president to take the helm of our rocky country. I am so estatic that we will have a democrat in office and that democrats seem to be winning more and more important races in the house, the senate, and local governorships and other offices. This means that America believes that it is time to see results. It is time for the melting pot to be led. We are not an all white country. We are a nation of mostly minorities who are making a huge difference in our world. Smart and intelligent people who are destined to be leaders. We are a nation founded on hope, not just democracy. Hope that we people would be able to live in a free country where people are judged by their religion, their race, and most importantly to me, their gender. I know that some people are worried about the socialist rumor. Obama only wants to turn things around so that people in our country have a fair shot in life. Having the government take over some things will help us all be able to live a more affordable life. It isn't taking our rights away, it is giving us more freedom. I am curious to see how the country reacts in the next year.