I hope everyone had a wonderful Friday today, because I did. Today was full of awesome. First things first. My “lifestyle change” goals are still on track! I’ve been swapping alcohol for water and eating healthier this week and it’s already made a tiny difference. I got into my skinniest skinny jeans today which of [...]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
20 Nov
Good Friday!
Posted by just me in Diet, Education, Food/Booze, Goals, Health, Life, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Organic/All Natural, Pregnancy/Children, Vegetarian/Vegan. Tagged: big bowl, big bowl vegetarian menu, elementary school, thanksgiving. Leave a Comment
9 Oct
Becoming Joey
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Equality, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Poetry, Social Topics. Tagged: acceptance, becoming joey, diversity, diversity poems, diversity poetry, immigrants, kids, multicultural, paul c. gorski, poems, poetry, students, teasing, white privilege. 3 Comments
I was reading today and came across a poem that really caught my attention. I thought it was worth sharing since I’ve been on my writing so much about diversity this week… Becoming Joey By Paul. C Gorski Jose’s ten. Looks six by size, twenty in the eyes. Down the school-morning street he ambles along [...]
5 Oct
Teenage Gays Epidemic
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Celebrities, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Health, Life, Mental Health, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized. Tagged: billy lucas, bisexual, bullying, ellen degeneres, gay, gay students, gay teen suicide, harassment, homosexual suicide, kathy griffin, lawrence fobes king, lesbian, oprah, physical harassment, school, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, teenage suicide, the trevor project, transgender, tyler clementi, verbal harassment. Leave a Comment
Bullying is hardcore right now, as we have all heard about the recent increase in teenage suicide related to school bullying. What’s really sad is that a freaking lot of these teenage suicides are related to gays. (Five gay teenagers just committed suicide this past week.) Right now dealing with homosexual harassment and prejudice is [...]
4 Oct
America’s Children Potential
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Pregnancy/Children, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Work. Tagged: acceptance, america, american society, bullying, children, cultural differences, education, homophobic, progressive, race, racist, reforms, schools, sexist, teachers, teasing, tolerance, u.s history. 1 Comment
My number one reason why I want to be a teacher is because I love kids. Absolutely, genuinely, whole heartedly love them. But there are other reasons of course. One major one is that I believe in order to produce education that is going to contribute to our society and democracy later, we must teach [...]
26 Aug
Veggies Can Feed the World
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Education, Environment, Health, Life, Meat production, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste, Weight Control, World Hunger. Tagged: americans, crops, environment, ethiopian famine, fat americans, livestock, meat consumption, meat production, vegan, vegetarian, waste, world hunger. 1 Comment
One of the most depressing things to me is waste. I’m a huge advocate of recycling, reusing, and leftovers. I don’t like seeing things wasted, ever. Although I am liberal in almost all parts of my life, I am very conservative with my money-which also aids me in my ability to never waste. I don’t [...]
13 Aug
At the very least, please give up Tyson!
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Celebrities, Charity/Benefits, Education, Environment, Health, Life, Meat production, Organic/All Natural, Products, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste. Tagged: animal cruelty, animal rights, chicken, compassion over killing, george's, inc., inhumane animal practices, kfc, kfc cruelty, kfc supplier, national chicken council, peta, slaughterhouses, tortured by tyson, tyson chicken, tyson foods, tyson kfc investigations, tyson slaughterhouses. Leave a Comment
I know I preach a lot but I’ve been reading a lot lately about the conditions at Tyson and KFC and had to share the disgusting facts I’ve been finding out. I wish I had blogged about this earlier, and wish I had known years earlier about it. In all reality, I don’t care if [...]
11 Aug
‘That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals!’
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Books, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Health, Life, Meat production, Organic/All Natural, Pregnancy/Children, Raves, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/Vegan. Tagged: book review, children, children's books, jane goodall, ruby roth, that's why we don't eat animals, vegan, vegan art, vegetarian, vegetarian children. Leave a Comment
I was at the cabin a few weekends ago and the family made some ribs, steaks and hot dogs. Instead, I had my salad and beans. My darling 7 year old niece, E, asked me “What is steak?” As she chewed it up. “It’s cow,” I replied. “WHAT!?” She looked like I told her that [...]
10 Aug
Veggie Gossip
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Celebrities, Charity/Benefits, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Goals, Health, Life, Meat production, Organic/All Natural, Quotes, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste. Tagged: agriculture, animal cruelty, celebrity vegetarian, dairy, eating animals, eggs, environment, factory farming, factory farms, famous vegetarians, farms, food politics, fur, go veg, hunting, ink not mink, kfc, meat, milk, peta, peta ads, slaughterhouses, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarian times, vegetarianism. Leave a Comment
Being a vegetarian has been an excellent choice I’ve made in my life and every day that I find out that someone else is a vegetarian or a vegan I know that I’m not a freak and there are tons of people out there that don’t eat meat as well. In my own family and [...]
9 Aug
Priority #1? Happiness.
Posted by just me in Education, Entertainment, Friendship, Health, Life, Local, Mental Health, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Work. Tagged: business, corporations, depression, follow your heart, happiness, money, office space, quarter life crisis, stress, teachers, teaching, work, work stress. 1 Comment
About 5 months ago I couldn’t have told you anything that I can tell you now. Right now I can tell you that I’m going to grad school and getting my Masters. I can tell you that I love my job. I can tell you that I can’t wait to be a teacher. I can [...]
26 Jul
Is it Thanksgiving yet?
Posted by just me in Activism, Celebrities, Education, Life, Music, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Waste, Work. Tagged: child labor, lifestyle, mtv, radiohead, social topics, Sociology, waste, welfare. 2 Comments
After my last entry I started thinking even more hardcore about waste. Thinking about the way we, Americans, live I see that we waste so much. I’m not bad mouthing everyone else, I too am guilty of waste. We all take the things we have for granted because we are used to this lifestyle. For [...]
