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Today is World Sleep Day . Yes, there is such a thing. I have been neglecting blog fans of the Feline Bishop Extraordinaire, the Right Rev...

Thirty years ago today, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first cases of AIDS in the Unite...

More on children in commemoration of the Holy Innocents . United Nations agencies working for the safety and well-being of children include ...

I am convalescing. Whether or not the bug was H1N1 is unclear, since I have half of the symptoms from the "nope, it's not H1N1...

I promised you a mindfulness exercise for Tuesday and it's Thursday. I really ought to remember that Tuesday and Wednesday are my long ...

With thanks to the Huffington Post (a.k.a. HuffPo), here are the text of the speech and, toward the bottom of the text, the full video. (Th...

It's Labor Day, I taught and held office hours all morning, went home and had a late lunch, went to bed for a nap (not enough sleep last...

I will put more details up tomorrow, since it is late and I am prepping for class. Yes, I have to teach on Labor Day, at 8:30 a.m. Meanwhile...

See below . Today is write-the-President-about-health-care-reform day. And if you wish, share what you wrote, or what you are thinking, or ...

Tomorrow is letter-writing day. No, it's not a national holiday or some Hallmark-fabricated day. It's letter-writing day tomorrow be...

Occasionally we have a series here at Acts of Hope, a mix of information, inspiration, and advocacy. We seem to do this roughly once a year,...

Yes, yes, I will get back to blogging! Thanks for bearing with me, friends. I am cooking in my head a post that combines a report on the loc...

Citizens, time to show up. Especially a) if you are sick of uninformed, stupid, and hate-filled rhetoric and b) if you would like us to w...

The New York Times , that is. +Maya will be so happy with this! Check it out. I love it.

Current Events: PRESENTERS: [Father of Acts of Hope] & [FoAoH's Friend] , MD OBAMA AND OUR HEALTH: THE BATTLE OVER HEALTH CARE REFO...

Just got an update. (See post below for earlier episode.) Deenie is staying at home. Her lawyer and friend (same person) intervened and did...

It has been nearly four years since I moved to North Carolina and I have yet to get a new health care proxy . Don't do what I have done....

Doxy, of recent fabulous wedding fame, has a post up this evening about a friend who just died of uninsured causes. I phrase the cause of ...

People are often tired and overwrought at this time in the spring. The resident feline bishop thus begs to remind you of her pastoral letter...

I just posted this on Facebook for a friend who is deep in a writing job and thought I'd share it here for the assembled multitudes. I...