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Bad news for daily diet soda drinkers – you know, besides the pepsi max commercial.
It has not been a good week for people who drink diet soda, especially Pepsi Max. There is this Superbowl commercial which pretty much assured me that if I ever find myself grabbing a soda, it will NOT be a Pepsi Max. And now a study has found that people who consume diet soda on… Read more
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Google celebrated my son’s birthday!
Ok. It just happens to be on the same day as Jules Verne’s. Hee hee hee. Happy Birthday, Nat! Can’t believe it’s been eleven years, but it has. It has been so wonderful! Even when it has been hard, it has been wonderful to be your mother. Read more
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Black History Book Tuesday: The Other Wes Moore.
When Wes Moore was reading the newspaper article about his being named a Rhodes Scholar, he caught a glimpse of an article about a young man being sought in connection with an armed robbery that resulted in the death of an off-duty police officer. The young man’s name was also Wes Moore. The Other Wes… Read more
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Harriett Ball (1946-2011)
She saw hope in every child. She never looked down on children because of their neighborhood or their parents. Pamela Franks on her mother, Harriett Ball Harriett Ball was born in the Houston area in 1946. She was a major inspiration behind the KIPP charter school system. The system is named for her song, “Knowledge is… Read more
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