1.  Did I ever mention I’m listed on Wikipedia?  They used my maiden name (Pam Sanchez), but also gave my air name which was Stephanie Rose!  My first job was working both the AM, KPZE and the FM sides at KEZY.   This article just covers the AM history of AM 1190.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGBN

2. Elephant Journal posted a blog called How to Say No (in 25 Bad A**Ways).
Number 16 is my favorite:
#16 “Fuck no. That would be stupid.”

3. April 8th was Equal Pay day. It symbolizes how much further women would have to work at the same job to receive the same pay men did in 2013. It illustrates the gap between men’s and women’s wages.
I still hold resentment from being paid less as a woman Program Director (and full-time on-air position) at my radio station than a male office manager. Later, I was told it was because he was the sole breadwinner for his family. I still call “bullshit” on that one.

Here’s more on that:  http://www.pay-equity.org/day.html

4.  Yusuf wrote an article for Rolling Stone Magazine about how he (Cat Stevens) felt about being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I LOVE Tea for the Tillerman and I still listen to it quite often.  This is what he said:

“The announcement of my enrollment into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will certainly bring happiness to a lot of my loyal fans, and fulfillment to all those who have long campaigned for it – not to mention how kinda tickled it makes me feel too.”

I love how it kinda tickled him!

5. I’m loving the new trend – well at least the effort to start a new trend – of converting lawns to gardens.  I believe you still would need a green thumb to pull that off though.

6.  I read an article titled, “The 3 Best Ways to Beat Sugar Cravings.”  Listed as number 3:  “The Psychologist says…walk away.”

Do you really need a degree to come up with that one?

 7.  Tipping Smart Cars?  Funny yes, but not cool.
Three Smart Cars were recently found “tipped” in San Francisco.  Hot Rod Magazine posted an editorial online in an attempt to nip this activity in the bud, and I support their efforts.  To quote John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, “Don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle.  It’s against the rules.”

8.  Whenever I watch a really good musician play acoustic guitar I like to pay attention to their fret work and try to figure out what they’re do.  Usually when I go up to meet them, they ask if I play, and I always reply with a chuckle, “not really.”  That always gets the understanding nod.

9.  I’ve always enjoyed reading.   The most recent novel I read was the fourth novel from Helen Fielding regarding Bridget Jones. It was called “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”  I blushed throughout the novel because parts of it hit too close to home.  But honestly, I’m hoping for the same happy ending for me.  I’m an eternal optimist!

10.  OH!!!  Last February I wrote about my one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon and how we ended up with the cardboard cut out they used when Kevin Bacon guest starred on Will and Grace.  Well that exact episode was on the other day so I took a picture of my T.V.  Can you imagine walking into your office and seeing Kevin Bacon standing there?
https://acoupleofthings.us/2014/02/25/a-couple-of-things-34/

11.  Peter Matthiessen passed away Saturday, April 4, 2014, just days before his latest novel, “In Paradise” was to be released.  He was quoted as saying that he wanted readers of “In Paradise” to consider the potential for evil in all of us. “The number of people killed in the past century — human beings killing each other is phenomenal, you know?” Matthiessen said. “How has civilization — so called — come this far and people are still designing tools to kill each other? For no other purpose than killing. Why are we doing it? Why are we doing it?”

Okay, the potential is there.  But gratefully the majority of us rise above it EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I’ve shared this quote before, but it ubber appropriate here:

“Be the change you wish to see in the World.” Mahatma Gandhi

Thanks for listening.