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Week 42: Speaking as a Drop in the Ocean

Posted in Children, Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, volunteering on October 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Still a little bit backwards as I try to catch up after this flu. Week 41 (from last week) will be posted shortly. Tuesday evening, I had the privilege to speak to an audience at my local Toastmasters meeting. It’s not something that I do often enough, I still fear public speaking. But when there [...]

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Week 20: Retrospective

Posted in Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, Micro-financing, Random Acts of Kindness, Search-to-donate, Water conservation on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I admit it. There have been times when we’ve said, “what have we gotten ourselves into?!!” “Life Happens,” and not always at moments when it’s convenient. Twice during the first 20 weeks we’ve had to scale back our expectations due to illness, household “disaster” or just plain fatigue. But, we’re proud to say that we [...]

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Week 8: Wrap-Up, Making Smiles Happen

Posted in Children, Children - Chronically Ill, tagged , , , , on February 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »

This week’s Impact Effort was, thus far, the most difficult, yet rewarding we’ve taken. To be honest, I never thought about how many -itises, -pathys, -emias, -tomas, -epsys, or -oses there are that so virulently attack children. Our hearts broke to read about the trials these children and their families go through; at the same [...]

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Week 8: Brighten a Child’s Day

Posted in Children, Children - Chronically Ill, tagged , , , , , on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It’s pretty hard not to be touched by the smile of a child. This week, we’re going to try to bring smiles to several children. We hope to achieve this through any of three websites, Hugs and Hope and Make a Child Smile in the U.S., and Post Pals in the United Kingdom. We’ll be sending [...]

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