Comment For The Cure

April 18, 2010

Chances are pretty good that you know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I read the following sentence on a post at BlogHer and found it staggering: Did you know that one in eight women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and breast cancer is the leading [...]

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Cleaning For A Reason

March 25, 2010

You know as well as I do that cleaning house can be difficult on a good day. The bending, stooping, and reaching can be exhausting. The cleaning products can overwhelm your senses. Imagine how difficult housecleaning can be for a cancer patient! Fortunately, there is an organization that will supply a free professional cleaning service [...]

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An Easter Blog Hop for Charity

March 24, 2010

Do y’all remember the thrill of holidays when you were a child? Last Easter, I “stalked” this little man with my camera while he was on his first Easter Egg hunt trying to capture the image of his excitement. Adorable, isn’t he? Don’t we wish we felt that same delight and excitement all the time? [...]

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Now It’s Time For A Trip To The Food Bank

December 13, 2009

Many thanks to all of you who left “comments for cans!” I have felt some “good energy” coming from you the last few days. Now, I’m excited about a trip to the Tarrant Area Food Bank tomorrow to donate 125 cans. As I wandered through the grocery aisles gathering those cans for the food bank, [...]

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One Comment Equals One Can To The Food Bank

December 6, 2009

Chances are pretty darned good that if you are reading this you are not one of the one out of six Americans who go hungry. According to a department of agriculture survey, that number doesn’t include folks who have food only because they are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. Food banks are in [...]

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Only The Good Friday

March 20, 2009

I am always in awe of people with courage. I’m talking courage with a capital “C.” It’s the kind of courage that you can’t even know you have until you are faced with an impossible situation. I have no illusions about myself — I know I don’t have it! If you give me bad news, [...]

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Tide Offers “Loads Of Hope.” Only The Good Friday.

March 13, 2009

I love to buy products from companies that give back to the community. I don’t buy Tide detergent, but after a recent press release from BlogHer, I think I’m going to have to start purchasing it. Most of us take for granted the opportunity to wear clean underwear and clothing every day. In the wake [...]

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Give What You Grow. Only The Good Friday

February 20, 2009

I enjoy fresh vegetables from the garden, don’t you? Bell peppers are my favorite things to grow, but I have to admit that the smell of a ripe, red tomato fresh from the vine is almost as wonderful as the smell of bacon frying in the pan. Those washed out tomatoes you can find at [...]

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New Eyes

December 25, 2008

It was the Christmas that I discovered that my sight is not very good at all. It was the year that I looked at the world with “new eyes.” I left my two young boys with the babysitter to give “Santa” a much needed opportunity to “convene with the elves” at the shopping mall. For [...]

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Can You Say 720 Cans To The Food Banks?

December 13, 2008

Yes, that’s what I said! I was matching cans for comments this last week, and got 80 comments. PLUS I promised to match the comments from Marcia’s blog, which totaled 40. That’s 120 cans. Just from me. Marcia at RV Poetry & her husband Leon are matching it (go read what she said, for she [...]

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Only The Good Friday # 9: HAP

December 12, 2008

In celebration of Friday, and Only The Good, I have asked a friend to write a post for me (her very first blog post!). Deborah is the “fire” behind a special project that is VERY good. I’ll let her tell you about it. She will tell you how to help if you are “crafty;” I’ll [...]

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Five Cans To A Food Bank Per Comment!!!

December 11, 2008

Whoot! Get in here and make some comments, folks. I told you why on my cans for comments post. Every comment you make equals a can of food donated to the Tarrant County Food Bank. Not only that but I have two non-bloggers who will match my donation (39 at this very moment). Not only [...]

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Comments For Cans: Top 10 Reasons You Should Comment

December 9, 2008

De-lurk yourself with a click on that comment button at the bottom of the post. I have 10 good reasons why: Number 10: The television news says that more people are resorting to using food bank donations this holiday season to support their dwindling incomes. So many people are losing jobs these days, you never [...]

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I Donate Cans For Comments

December 7, 2008

Empty my piggy bank to fill the food bank! There is a wonderful, simple idea going around on some photography blogs in the Vancouver area: Make a comment on a participating blog — a can of food gets donated to the needy. I liked this idea very much. I found it by following a Twitter [...]

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Only The Good Friday #3

October 31, 2008

Hey, it’s Friday and time for Only The Good! If you want to join me in trying to spread an “optimism virus,” just post and then come tell me. I hope you will! So did y’all have yourself a big breakfast this morning? You know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. [...]

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We’re Pals Again

April 20, 2008

Update: The fund raising has ended! PayPal and I had a brief moment there, when we just weren’t BBFs. Before I could get good and rolling, my attempt to raise funds to send children to Camp Sanguinity Cancer Camp hit a snag. I tell you what, I was so discombobulated by PayPal, so terribly stressed [...]

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NOW You can Donate to the Camp Sanguinity Fund

April 15, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED. Whoot! NOW we are in business! I’ve told you about it, and it took me several tries and several days to get a PayPal fund set up. You will be seeing this image on my sidebar for the next several months. You can click it to donate for the [...]

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I Dream Big. Let’s Send Some Kids With Cancer To Summer Camp.

April 9, 2008

UPDATE: THE FUND RAISING HAS ENDED. I want to raise money to send some children with cancer to a summer camp. We only have three months to do it. Yes, I’m crazy, if you have been here before you already knew that. I want YOU to help me. Are you crazy, too? Let’s get crazy [...]

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Deflated

March 19, 2008

I got punctured to donate my platelets, and I’m deflated about it at the moment. It didn’t go quite as I had planned. I might not be a very good donor, and I feel like a failure. I was pretty scatterbrained as I headed out the door, and barely remembered to grab a book from [...]

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There Will Be Blood

March 17, 2008

I’m trembling and trying to control my breathing as I prepare to go to Carter Blood Bank to donate platelets later today. My hope is that I will be a match as a bone marrow donor for a young man named Taten Court. He’s part Cree Indian, and finding a match for him has been [...]

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