Each year a few days after Christmas, Scott and I sit down and plan our charitable giving. We donate throughout the seasons as people and groups need support, but we also like to end each year by giving thanks for all we have. And we decided a long time ago that the best way to [...]
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By now, you’ve read about Kmart. Random people have paid off stranger’s Kmart layaway in time for Christmas. The anonymous generosity is spreading from city to city, but the story that remains with me is of a woman who stood at the layaway line and paid for 50 families, 2 carts worth of toys and [...]
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This weekend, I hung out with a tacky purse. And since my husband already had plans all weekend and it was Father’s Day so I couldn’t even throw a fit about it, I LITERALLY HUNG OUT WITH A PURSE CALLED PURSEY. Spending the weekend with a purse is more social than I’m used to, but, [...]
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I have been fascinated and appalled by the levee system of the Mississippi river. Small towns have been under water for weeks in order to save the larger cities all along the river based on decisions by the Army Corp of Engineers. One town that predates the levee, Pinhook, MO, is underwater in order to [...]
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On This Blogger Makes Fun of Stuff, I didn’t make fun of anything. I posted about Spinal Muscular Atrophy and on a little girl, Getty Storm. An adorable sweetheart whose mind and spirit are going strong but whose suffering from SMA.
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A reader sent me an article about a group of 38 charity and religious leaders fasting to bring God into politics. More specifically to “seek God’s help in fighting proposed budget cuts they believe are ‘immoral.’” (source) Now, I don’t believe in fasting. I think that we should treat our bodies as well as possible [...]
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I believe in free speech more than I believe in being offended. I also believe in loving the people who do despicable things. Should I become Amish? You can read my take on the Westboro Baptist Church when they came to Richmond a year ago: How to Love the Hate: Westboro Baptist Church Comes to [...]
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In last Friday’s advice column, I Asked: Do You See What My Inner Teenager Sees? and offered to give $20 to the charity of correct answer. Here is the offending light sculpture: And here is the sculpture from a different angle: So although no one guessed well-endowed farmer, the answers y’all DID give were HILARIOUS [...]
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