From Election to Holidays

Now that the election is over, I can finally come up for air! The day job took me to the Democratic National Convention, the Republican National Convention, and all around Southern California doing election-related coverage.

Ariel and her friend Tamika at the Conventions

It was all very exciting, but after the number of sexist comments I heard I’m even more passionate about Sticker Sisters and the work that still needs to be done.

Please consider donating money, time, or even some “Girls Can Do Anything” stickers or school supplies to an organization that does important work with girls. If you want to give people suggestions of organizations please post them in the comments.

And with the upcoming holidays, I hope you’ll give gifts with a message. At Sticker Sisters, of course, you can choose from dozens of stickers, t-shirts and other goodies with celebratory, encouraging messages for girls of all ages.

Independent, Unique Shopping

If you're in the LA area, come do your holiday shopping at Unique LA. It's going to have over 150 indie designers, artists and merchants. Not only is buying directly from local creators way better than picking up something at the mall, but no middle man means saving $$$.

Come stop by the Sticker Sisters table and say hi!

December 13th & 14th, 11 am – 7 pm
California Market Center, Downtown Los Angeles (Map It)
110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90079

$5 per ticket
(children 10 and under are free)
50% of ticket sales benefiting Create Now, a local arts organization for at-risk youth.

First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in Japan

16-year-old Eri Yoshida was drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise--a new profession baseball team in Japan. I was the only girl on my little league team when I was growing up so it's awesome to hear about a woman breaking into this old boys club at the professional level.

Okay so now I'm going to link to (gasp!) Fox Sports. I'm not linking there because they have some fantastic in-depth article. It's more because I want you to share my exasperation over the obnoxious comments:

"As long as she realizes that there is NO CRYING IN BASEBALL I think she'll be fine." -- GiantFanSince1990

"I finally figured out whats wrong with baseball---this" --davesgood2

Thankfully there are some really positive comments to balance out the annoying ones.