What does family mean to you? Certainly your Mom, your Dad and any siblings are in your family. You would probably toss in the grand parents and cousins as well.
But family isn’t just about genetic ties. Just look to facebook; apparently many of us have brothers and sisters (or even spouses) that are really just our best friends. This isn’t just new weird digital behavior—it has existed for ages. Who can deny that girls have been calling their closest friends sisters since the beginning of time?
Organizations and programs that wanted to develop communities adopted this nomenclature because of our natural instinct to associate strong familial feelings with the words “brother” and sister”. This is precisely why the two words describe members in organizations from the likes of Fraternities and Sororities to Big Brother and Big Sister mentorship programs. Read more »

They call them the terrible twos and threes. It’s the earliest time in life when you choose to express whatever anger you have with the world.
I have a love/hate relationship with Google.


If you watched Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, you’re certain to know that we are in the process of building an America that is ‘Built To Last’. President Obama said time and again that he will not back down, we will not turn back—that we’ve come too far to slip backwards.

Yesterday the San Francisco 49ers scored a touchdown to beat the New Orleans Saints with 9 seconds left in the game. Last week Mitt Romney didn’t win the Iowa primary until the last eight votes were counted.









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