Last month, the Million Moms Challenge was launched. The challenge is to raise $100,000 to help moms around the world. They share some pretty shocking statistics: Every 90 seconds, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Most of those deaths are in the developing world. 1 in 5 women in Africa loses a baby in [...]

Sara from Fresh Air wrote to me last week; they’re already gearing up for a wonderful summer and host families are needed. That’s a little hard to believe during an ice storm, but hey? What better time to think about family fun and summer than in the middle of an ice storm? In case you [...]

(Hullooooo, Internets! I’ve missed you. Life=nuts as of late, but I’m getting back into a schedule and should soon be entertaining updating you regularly again. In the meantime, please read this information sent by the American Lung Association about a really good cause.) Did you know that Christmas Seals was created in 1907 as a [...]

I’ve written about the Fresh Air Fund in the past because the service they provide just warms my heart. What they do is provide summer opportunities for kids from the inner city to experience life in the country or suburbs; places they would otherwise never visit. The Friendly Town program works like this: host families [...]

Sara from The Fresh Air Fund contacted me last month to tell me about a wonderful gift given to children who participated in Fresh Air camps this past summer. OneSight brought a traveling optical clinic to the camps and made sure that over 3000 children who needed the gift of sight were screened. Is that [...]

No really. I mean it. The Global Hug Tour is a project conceived by Gail Lynne Goodwin and her husband Darryl. I met Gail at SOBCon09 (seriously. I still have SO much material from that one conference) and she is wonderful. Gail’s main blog is InspireMeToday, which offers daily inspiration in the form of videos, [...]