We woke up to our first “real” snowfall yesterday, about three inches covering our neighborhood. While I plugged away at a project for work, my husband went outside and cleared the snow from our driveway. Listening to the morning news, I heard that in the New York City area, not too far from where most of our family [...]
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Sunday Service – Be a snow angel
January 22, 2012Thank you Thursday
January 12, 2012I was ten years old when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Old enough to remember, young enough to not quite understand all the implications. Over time, I have certainly come to appreciate Dr. King’s life, service, commitment, and passion for athe rights of all human beings. The MLK.gov website summarizes his message by [...]
Recipe for a happy new year
January 1, 2012N0 alcohol, no pork and sauerkraut, no herring in this new year’s recipe! This comes from appleseeds.org, quoted from an anonymous author. I hope your new year is made of all these things. Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely [...]
Sunday Service – Giving on any day
November 13, 2011Countless families, moved by a seasonal spirit of gratitide and giving, volunteer to at local food pantries, kitchens, and shelters to provide, cook or serve Thanksgiving meals. This week’s Sunday Service opportunity is to consider doing the same work in your community, but on a different day. Homeless, poor, elderly and other people need food every [...]
Sunday Service – Before giving to veterans’ organizations…
November 6, 2011Who wouldn’t want to help disabled veterans? Wouldn’t it be un-American to say no? That is exactly what many organizations are counting on this week, as we celebrate and honor our military veterans on 11.11.11. Be very careful, though, if your kindness, compassion and patriotism are tapped for a financial donation. There are many legitimate organizations providing great [...]
Thank you Thursday
November 3, 2011Sometimes, I need reminders that thankfulness can be for the most ordinary of things. Last night, I watched a recording of NBC news anchor Brian Williams’ new show, Rock Center. The very first segment was about Williston, North Dakota, a town in the middle of an oil-driven economic boom. Among the success stories, correspondent Harry Smith [...]
Sunday Service – Stop the Oppression of Girls
October 16, 2011My daughter and I are reading Half The Sky, written by Pulitzer Prize winning authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. We are going to hear Ms. WuDunn speak at The Ohio State University next month, and are eagerly anticipating that event. This moving book is about the horrific, oppressive treatment that women and girls endure [...]
Sunday Service
September 18, 2011It’s 2011 Peace Week! There are many organizations dedicated to the pursuit of peace; cultivating peace within ourselves, having a peaceful relationship with others, offering peaceful resolution to conflict, building peace within a community or culture, or striving towards global peace between nations. Click HERE to go to the Peace Week site and register. You will then [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
September 13, 2011As mentioned in Sunday’s post, last week I attended the Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference. Dee Dee Myers was the keynote speaker at the “2011 Ohio Most Powerful and Influential Women” awards breakfast. Ms. Myers is the former Clinton administration White House press secretary, a respected political analyst, and author of “Why Women Should Rule The World.” [...]
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