100 Children Suing Obama
June 17, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Family, Parenting
I read over at CBS News that there are over 100 children suing President Obama, right away this caught my interest. I mean why are there so many kidsuing one person right? Okay the article read that these are all children that have parents either already or about to be deported.
CBS4 News:
The organization is helping these children who are United States citizens fight for the rights of their parents who are being deported because they are not citizens. “We are trying to avoid that; we’re trying to avoid these children being
First, if a parent is being deported doesn’t that …read more
Are You A Hard Worker?
This is what my backyard currently looks like:
And this is what the inside of my house currently looks like:
Eventually, we hope to have a very nice patio…but in the meantime, it’s jackhammering, and sawing and dust from morning, non-stop until dinner time.
My complaints aside, what is interesting about this are the men who put in more than 12 hours a day, working on this project.
By no means do I wish to express thoughts or ideas about our national argument about illegal immigration…I simply want to point out how hard these guys work…and how badly I feel for them and how …read more
Globalized Suburb.
The family adjacent to our home is from China. Every morning a 6:00am sharp, the matriarch of their family, possibly in her 70’s…is out in her back yard doing some form of Chinese exercise/meditation. Some of the movements appear to be quite strenuous, or at least take a good amount of concentration and sometimes make her look like a character from an Asian film.
Since they’ve lived here, this older woman hasn’t missed a day of morning exercises. I am lucky if I get 3 push-ups done in a week. Son and daughter-in-law of this woman are both bio-quantum-engineer genius-types…and their …read more
“Day Without Immigrants”
This post is not a social or political entry, as it relates to today’s immigration rallies. It is merely an observation.
It is interesting to me how a national event is mirrored in small towns. I work from my home each day, and on a typical spring morning, I usually endure the buzz of lawn mowers and hedge trimmers used by local landscape companies throughout the town. A good majority of the workers who tend to our lawns are from Mexico.
Today, it is dead silent. No mowers, no leaf blowers…it’s simply a quiet, glorious May day. Interesting juxtaposition, if …read more




