This week, I and a number of other volunteers assisted the organization Metro Teen AIDS by assembling safe sex kits. The group provides condoms and information about safe sex to teenagers who can’t afford condoms, or who don’t think they … Continue reading
Well, my volunteer activity for November definitely, absolutely changed the world. In an attempt to get a new type volunteering done within the month (each month it has to be a different type), I volunteered to wrap presents at the … Continue reading
Thank goodness for my friend Michelle asking for volunteers to help with face-painting at our Halloween block party! I was so crazed with work I hadn’t even thought of my volunteer activity for the month of October. And here it … Continue reading
This month, my new volunteer activity was to serve as a dog handler for an adoption drive, organized by Mutt Love Rescue of DC, http://www.muttloverescue.org/, which yes, rescues dogs that tend to be mutts. From the street, from shelters, and … Continue reading
Catch up time again – it has been amazingly busy, and with the gorgeous weather, who wants to really sit and write? But here are the adventures I tackled this month. The New Food: Sapotes, which is a word used … Continue reading
The adventures continue this month – and are going to be fantastic the end of the month. I am going to have a crazy, true adventure, but as I don’t want to freak my Dad out by talking about it … Continue reading
So life has been busy! Partly because I finished up a major project at work in May – thus ending a 60-70-hr-per-week month, but then I turned around and volunteered (hold onto that word for later) to hold a reunion for my … Continue reading
Each month I try a new volunteer activity. This one was unexpected. I volunteered to help walk a balloon in the Cherry Blossom parade. So totally random. On such a beautiful day. We had to get there early – 7:30 … Continue reading
It is a pretty sad statement when one uses a volunteer effort that directly saves lives to try to make oneself feel better – sad on so many levels. Yes, I’ve had a horrible, horrible week at work, and am … Continue reading
Handwritten letters. Who writes letters by hand nowadays? I think the last one I wrote, except for those little notes within birthday cards, was a year ago or so, to send a recipe to a friend as part of a wedding … Continue reading
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