Below are a few ways to celebrate. Feel free to add your own!
Farm Talk
April 10 is National Farm Animal Day
The Movie Center
Russell Brand Makes a Cute Bunny
Cher Music
Song of the Day: “Song for the Lonely”
Pro-Choice Voters
Incorporate Your Uterus
Peace Report
Primates for Peace
Healthy and Hale
Women May Not Be As Weight Obsessed as We’re Rumored to Be
Science Report
New Particle Discovered?
Dog Report
Do Dogs Prefer Men?
Bird Talk
Penguins Mysteriously Losing Feathers
As a teen, I never thought of the Oscars as controversial or political; now, it seems as if I can’t think of them as anything but!
Movie Center
Films That Should Have Received Academy Awards
Female Talk
Academy Misogyny in True Grit Nominations
Noir Movie
Sex Abuse in Black Swan
Parenting Report
Nick Jr. Hosts Black History Month
You Clean
The Laundry Workout
(And get your head out of the gutter!) It’s officially National Poetry Writing Month (among other things)! Have you started writing yet? If not, you might find some of the tips below helpful.
Poetry Talk
Break Out Your Quills for NaPoWriMo
Living to Do
Go Ahead, Grow Those Nails
The Movie Center
How to Train Your Dragon: An Amazing Animated Film
Animal Report
Save the Spirit Bear
The Green Voter’s League
Call on Congress for Healthy Food
Creative Copy Challenge #28 is up, too!
Also, did anyone pull off any stellar Apirl Fool’s Jokes? I tried convincing my husband that there was a raccoon in the kitchen while he was at work; it didn’t work, but I’ll get him next year! As for our daughter, we’re planning a surprise ice cream run after we put her to bed.
I don’t really have a big one, but I definitely am irked that a certain film wasn’t nominated for a single award…
The Movie Center
No Nomination for Wild Things?
Children’s Bookclub
A Charlie Brown Valentine
Picture Book Club
I Kissed the Baby!
I Am Dodo
The Alphabet Keeper
The Movie Center
The Princess and the Frog
Fantasy Book Club
Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse
Battle of the Labyrinth
Romance Book Club
Wicked Lovely
Self Help Book Club
Take Time for Your Life
Peace Report
Obama Declares January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
If you’ve read the book, you might be a little disappointed.
The Movie Center
The Lovely Bones
God Report
10 Ways to Celebrate Religious Freedom
Ah, Twain. He’s sort of like The Bard to us Missourians.
Fiction Book Club
Happy Birthday, Mark Twain
Female Talk
A Little Self-Love Goes a Long Way
Fantasy Books
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Movie Center
New Concerns Over New Moon
It might sound like a phrase for shock value, but it really is entirely possible. Fortunately, there are things we can do to help stop child exploitation.
360 Blog
Protect Kids From Exploitation
Parenting Report
Inflatables: Kid Fun or Parental Nightmare?
Strange Somethings
Online Seance Held By Twitter Tries to Reach Michael Jackson
Animal Report
Over 1 Million Bats Die of “White Noise Syndrome”
The Movie Center
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is Fun for the Whole Family
We went into a Johnny Brock’s Dungeon and apparently I was the only one in our little group to not notice a dude in a Gumby costume saunter over and stand still next to us, holding a scythe.
I told my daughter, “Look, it’s Gumby!” thinking it was a statue or something–until he started walking toward us! I jumped, the rest of my family laughed–and my daughter grabbed onto me, terrified of the big green glob.
Though Gumby later gave her a hug and smoothed it over (making her now a Gumby fan for life), I still feel like an idiot.
Happy Halloween!
360 Blog
Trick or Treat for UNICEF
The Movie Center
Where the Wild Things Are Will Blow You Away
9 Has Room for Much More
Working and Parenting
How to Celebrate Halloween When You Can’t
Parenting Report
Kids and Knock-Knock Jokes
A little bit ‘o everything…
Parenting Report
Childhood Injury Prevention Month
Children’s Tylenol Recalled
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
The Movie Center
Pride and Glory Has Neither
Sunshine Cleaning: A Fun and Meaningful Film
Pirates 4 Announced
Female Talk
September 30 is National Women’s Health and Fitness Day
Become a Cervical Cancer & HPV Awareness Ambassador
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