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When I went to school this morning, a friend of mine asked me if I was going to donate blood to the Red Cross, who was hosting a blood drive in the gym. My first reaction was fear. I was deathly afraid of needles, and the sight of blood made me very sick and squeemish. Seeing my expression, my friend said: "I'm guessing you're not a fan of needles. Or blood. Most people aren't.  Read More »

"Good Morning, this ain't Vietnam still
People lose hands, legs, arms for real
Little was known of Sierra Leone
And how it connect to the diamonds we own
...when I know of the blood diamonds
Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs  Read More »

For those of us in love, Valentine's Day is the best day ever. For the rest of us, it is Single's Awareness Day (aka S.A.D...depressing, isn't it?). This year, on February 13th, a cause on facebook called "To Write Love On Her Arms" asked us, quite literally, to write the word "LOVE" on our arms, because the next day (Valentine's Day) had the highest rate of teenage suicide.  Read More »