(Re) Chic

I just read this article on Bit Rebels called Facebook in Real Life.   The article includes a video (which is hilarious) showing how ridiculous some of our social media (specifically facebook) habits really are. Now, once you get past the ridiculousness of the video itself the idea really does have a point.  On Facebook you actually use your real name, your real face, real pictures of you, your real job and email address are listed.  You don't hide behind a screen name or a buddy icon.  Its our real selves there on the page.  However, Facebook is losing more and more popularity as Twitter continues to get stronger and stronger but on Twitter you can still have that aspect of anonymity.  Your 160 character bio doesn't have to have any information about you at all.  And your mom won't be posting photos of you in the Christmas sweater your Grandma knitted you. Why do we use social media if we're simply going to spend our time hiding behind our pseudonyms and

Hello again! Here's the link to the Rachael Ray show's page on Wilmington's episode. "Thanksgiving on Main Street" Check it out, I'm going to be working with Sugartree Ministries which is the food pantry that now looks like a food network set!

I know that since my blog has moved to a new location a lot of my readers are new and haven't heard a whole lot about the huge new move in my life. I have started this week at Grow Food Grow Hope in Wilmington, OH. Grow Food Grow Hope is a Community Garden Initiative with 9 VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteers working to raise awareness of the benefits of backyard gardening and all the great things that happen when you have fresh produce at your disposal. For those of you who haven't heard we just won a HUGE grant from Tom's Of Maine where we get to spend $20,000 to work with this initiative. I believe all the great press happened because Sugartree , the food pantry and soup kitchen I will be working closely with, was featured on Rachael Ray where they completely redid the entire inside and basically made it look like a food network set. For Rachael Ray's trailer click here and of course check your local listings because it should be airing t

Miley Cyrus has gone from Hannah Montana to Hooker. And I don't think its an improvement. Via Beanstocked News In a world where sex sells I think we are rapidly losing any decent role modeling that could be providing by our celebrity teens.  Between posing for Vanity Fair to pole dancing at the VMAs Miley Cyrus is a far cry from the girl next door who HAPPENS to be a celebrity vibe that was portrayed on Hannah Montana.  And I find this to be a grave disservice to our youth.  The young girls who watched every episode of Hannah Montana are now watching Miley head in the direction so many former Disney stars have gone.  From Britney to Christina all sorts of former Disney stars have moved away from their wholesome role modeling roots too uber-sexy, uber-skanky roles that border (if not cross) into inappropriate. I can just see the young girls now emulating Miley Cyrus with hooker boots and pole dancing.  Because you know there are young girls that do.  8-year-olds who

I apologize a thousand times for the lack of updates and for putting this up so late. Large amounts of technical difficulties have inhibited my blogging, email checking, social networking, etc. However, now that I have a moment's internet access I would like to give you the link to this brilliant idea that Sharalyn Hartwell has cooked up. She writes for the Gen Y Examiner and to combat the stereotype that Gen Y is a bunch of ungrateful brats she asked members of Gen Y to write what they're grateful for and has been posting them in series. Here's the link. She's posted a few each day so keep reading these articles of course I'm partial to mine which can be read here.