is 49 Luo grandmothers and great-grandmothers raising 150 AIDS-orphaned grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Ahero, Kenya. They sell their baskets to buy animals, schoolbooks, and extra food through this one-woman zero-overhead NGO. Posted via web from delong's posterous Today, November 15 only, Ann Marie and I are matching basket purposes. If ...

... some comfort food this evening. The hotel had some less-than-appetizing lasagna, so I decided to find someplace else to eat. I fired up Google Maps, centered it on Omaha, and started looking… I chose Grandmothers. It’s in Ralston, a small town adjacent to Omaha, just east of 84th on L. I got there and was immediately seated. The place was really, really good. My server said she ...

... is love at it's best. I always get kind of emotional on grandparents day.  I some times feel a little jealousy, because my kids know both sets of their grandparents and I never did.  I never knew my grandmothers.  My dad's mother I vaguely remember and my mom's mother died when my mom was young.  So i often wonder what they were like, what their voices sounded ...

Download Grandmothers of death I started recording this song at about 6pm, and now it's 8:17pm. Cool, man, in about 2 hours you can have a song go from bein' an idear in your head to bein' on the internet for everyone in the whole wide world to hear! (Or, in my case, the 3 people who check this blog. Thanks, guys!) Anyway, I think I know what this song's about, but it would be ...

11.14.09 after some inspiration and encouragement from a friend, i decided to dive right in. this weekend, i began what might become my new addiction. embroidering random animals like goats. (yes, i'm a single, 27 year old woman with no kids. interested?) why am i embroidering? creativity. community. mema. 1. creativity. embroidery is a new creative outlet for me. personally, i like to ...

... -model the predictions of the grandmother hypothesis by examining the genetic relatedness between grandmothers and grandchildren. We use this new model to re-evaluate the grandmother effect in seven previously studied human ... in the per cent of genes they share with maternal versus paternal grandmothers because of differences in X-chromosome inheritance. Here, we demonstrate a relationship between X- ...