Hello!  This is my first blog entry ever.  I'll just start by saying that I'm 34, a mother of two, and a co-owner of a business teaching art to kids.  I didn't know it for years, but apparently I'm also some kind of raving liberal.  Finally, after eight years of baffling confusion, it seems that now, at the dawn of the Obama era, the world is beginning to agree with me idea-wise, and I've begun to trust that I'm not nuts; in fact, I was right all along ("right" while still being "left" - ha).  So, I've decided to start this blog in order to get my ideas out of the fuzzy airspace in my head, and into the real world - well, the cyber-world at least, so that if anyone out there finds them interesting, these thoughts, articulated, may actually help that person articulate his or her own point of view.  Somewhere along the line, somehow, some of this might do someone some good.