Monthly Archives: September 2009

Help Raise Money For Malaria

Over a million people are killed by malaria EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Think about that for a minute, and watch the video below. Netting Nations PSA – Nets Save Lives! from Netting Nations on Vimeo. The sad thing is combating malaria can be so simple. Bed nets, which cost about $5 per net. For those in the Seattle area, there is an event October 7th at Copper Cart Cafe in Belltown that you should attend to help us raise money to buy malaria nets. It’s part of a 7 day, 7 city tour across the US organized by Sloane Berrent and Doug Campbell. The 7 cities are: NEW YORK Saturday, October 3rd MIAMI Sunday, October 4th … Continue reading

A Prague Story that Will Make You Laugh

I woke up this morning in Prague to a cell phone ringing somewhere in my hostel room (8 person room) around 7:30 or 8. I hear someone rummaging around in their pockets to find the phone, then a male voice answers groggily and listens to the other person on the line for a moment. The voice in my room answers “on the floor” — it’s obvious his friend asked where he was. He then hangs up, gets up off the floor, and stumbles out of the room still trying to piece together the night — and how he ended up on the floor of a random hostel room. Sounds like a good night. Still not … Continue reading

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Headed to Europe

Today is my last day in the states for a few weeks – I’ll be in Europe (Amsterdam, Munich, Prague, and Vienna) until October 5th — so blogging will be extremely light over the next few weeks!

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Inle Lake in Burma

P1020606, originally uploaded by SloaneBerrent. This photo was too gorgeous not to blog, especially now that I’ve found this interface to post it straight from Flickr without even having to log into my blog.

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Sweet Photo from Burma

P1020594, originally uploaded by SloaneBerrent. Wow, I’m blogging this from within Flickr – I have to say I’ve never tried this before. But I’m impressed!!

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Gorgeous Picture – Early Morning on Camiguin Island, Philippines

[via Sloane at The Causmopolitan]

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I’ve Never Watched LOST. Seriously

I’ve Never Watched LOST. Seriously Why do I say that? Since putting this new theme up a few days ago, I’ve had 4 or 5 people tell me that the header reminds them of LOST. So I just wanted to set the record straight that I’ve never watched LOST and the show did not play into my choice of a header image. In fact, the beach in the header is actually a photo I took myself at Playa Grande in the Dominican Republich last November. Now that that’s all cleared up, back to your regularly scheduled Sunday evening…

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