Thanks to the awesome Indiana Family of Farmers for asking me to write about this and providing enough tickets for a giveaway! Did you know that Indiana has 69 wineries that produce over 1.25 million gallons of wine a year, and attracts over 2 million visitors? (Dude, I’m not even kidding.) So get this: Indiana [...]
Ok, listen up Indy because I’m going to tell you something super cool and fun! The Indianapolis Zoo is having the 33rd running of the Zoopolis 500, presented by the American Dairy Association, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. What is the Zoopolis 500, you ask? Well, it’s only the Greatest Spectacle in Tortoise Racing! (Duh!) Yep, you read [...]
Thank you to Indiana Dairy and also Cris for allowing me to write about such an important tradition in our state. This was a true honor. I grew up in Indiana, so the Indianapolis 500 was always a part of our lives. We would listen to the race on the radio and that [...]
Last week I posted a writing prompt over on Project Purse Club asking the members to write a post for Mother’s Day celebrating women. Maybe it was your mom, maybe it was a mentor, maybe it was a group of women. When I first posted that prompt, I had a different post in my [...]
Before you get all blah-blah-blah on me, I’m a proponent of breastfeeding. I actually breastfed my baby … until I had to stop breastfeeding and bottle feed her because of a medical condition she acquired. That’s why I’m a little annoyed that New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has now put breastfeeding on his radar–more importantly, he [...]
The mom community is once again on fire about something in the news. Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive turned new Yahoo CEO, is coming under fire for revealing that she will work through her maternity leave instead of taking the allotted time off. “I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My [...]
Well, guys, you’ve done it again. You’ve managed to reduce women to a ridiculous picture of perfection that will never happen. Thanks for perpetuating that. Men’s Health has come out with a composite of the perfect woman–11 qualities, according to their men, that make up their dream woman. (Sigh. I know.) Even though they [...]
More riveting marital conversations (MRMC). This is a real conversation that took place between my husband and me. (We’re not really cartoon characters. We just play them on the Internet.) ALSO ON WRITRAMS : eShortz | MRMC: Abercrombie Fit
Our last house was on the water and, like many waterfront locations, it wasn’t in a neighborhood. This meant that you had million dollar homes intermingled with not-so-million-dollar-homes. People pretty much did what they wanted. Where we live now is in a neighborhood … with a home owners’ association. It’s not our first neighborhood, [...]
When I agreed to partner up and help get the word out about the Karing Card Club for bloggers, I didn’t realize how much I would look forward to the mail each month. Remember when you used to get excited when people would send you fun stuff in the mail? Well, I had forgotten [...]
Thank you to Indiana Family of Farmers for allowing me to write about this important festival. Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22nd as a way to educate and enlighten people about how we live and how we affect our planet. This year, Indianapolis is celebrating the Earth Day Indiana Festival on Saturday, April 27, from [...]
Thank you to Indiana’s Family of Farmers for allowing me to be part of this amazing event and organization. You can even read about one of our rescues featured on the Indy Humane site. If you’ve read me for a while, you know that we are animal rescuers. Since we moved back to Indianapolis [...]
I have been blessed to connect with so many amazing women doing great things on Project Purse Club. That’s where I “met” Kendra. Kendra came up with a great idea after realizing how the bully bloggers get attention, but there are so many non-bully bloggers out there. Kendra said: After thinking this through, I have [...]
If you are a pet family, you are probably aware that your pet picks a person and loves them better than the rest of the family. There’s no use trying to deny it, your dog or cat loves you or one of the other people in your family better. In my family, the male [...]
I was excited to get to preview the new Butterfly Kaleidoscope at the Indianapolis Zoo, however I wasn’t prepared for the effect that had on me. I’ve had a super hectic past six weeks with illnesses and other stuff going on in our lives, and I didn’t really realize how stressed I was until [...]
I love those online donation sites, don’t you? You know, the ones where people post their projects and then ask for donations to fund them? It’s amazing to me to see the creativity out there. For some of these sites, I get automated emails that highlight popular projects and what people are funding. A [...]
I grew up in Indiana. My childhood memories are filled with rows and rows of cornfields surrounding us everywhere we drove. And, when it wasn’t corn, it was soybeans. Although my parents grew up farming, they weren’t farmers by the time I entered the picture. We had a garden, that seemed huge to my young [...]
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