If you have a snack attack tomorrow, visit your nearest Blimpie store tomorrow for a free 3-inch cold turkey sub sandwich. More details on the promotion can be found here. Make-a-Wish foundation is sponsoring this event with the hope that people will make donations on their visit, so technically, it might not work out to [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 22, 2008
Lost and found
Preparing to go overseas in 2000, I was allowed two 70 lb pieces of luggage that I could check, and the normal allowance for carry-ons. On international flights, if you’re coming from America, they allowed you more than the 20 kg allowance they were giving passengers flying within European countries. I guess that they expect [...]
September 21, 2008
The world is at your doorstep – Pt. 2
Despite the fact that I had spent five years overseas in Central Asia, heading over to this new refugee family’s place with my friends in Colorado, I felt a bit of apprehension. What if they didn’t speak Uzbek after all? What was their culture like? Would I know what to do without offending them?
When we [...]
September 20, 2008
The world is at your doorstep – Pt. 1
I had mentioned on my “Coming up this week” page that I would be doing an interview with my good friend and neighbor, Tamara (shown above here holding my son, and standing with her husband, Iskandar, and sister-in-law, Rima). Unfortunately, between the pile of housework I need to catch up on today and the full-day’s [...]
September 19, 2008
Grow in more ways than one
Have you ever wanted to learn more about gardening or just help make a difference? Yesterday I picked up these starts at the Urban Garden Center, a program of the Spiral Garden Community Food Security project in Berkeley, CA. Not only are the quality, variety, and price of the plants sold here hard to beat, but [...]
