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Comment for the Cure: Breast Cancer Awareness and Tax

20 October 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed [...]

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Thanks!

16 May 2010

Thanks to all of my readers who donated to Team Joye in the Komen Race for the Cure. Our team raised $1000 for breast cancer awareness and research. $1000! Thanks again for the support, you guys rock!

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Think Pink This Mother’s Day

2 May 2010

If you were to make a list of things about me and things about my mom, you’d notice a lot of differences. She lives in the south and likes rodeos, westerns on AMC and Christmas sweaters. Me? I live up north and I like baseball games, quirky British comedies and I wear a lot of [...]

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Congress Wants You To Give To Haiti. But Just Haiti.

26 January 2010

On January 12, a massive earthquake struck Haiti. The earthquake measured 7.0 on the Richter Scale. Devastating aftershocks followed. The confirmed death toll is 150,000 people and the Red Cross estimates that nearly 3 million people will be affected by the disaster. By comparison, Hurricane Katrina, considered to be the largest natural disaster in the [...]

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Looking for a Year End Donation?

30 December 2009

Psst… Looking for a year end donation? As you may know, I am running the Komen Race for the Cure in 2010 in honor of my grandmother – you can read about our mutual love of coffee here. Our team is Team Joye. You can support us in a few ways: One, you can make [...]

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Comment for the Cure">Comment for the Cure

19 October 2009

It’s October, which means that it’s Breast Cancer Awareness month. Last year, on the blog, I promised to donate a dollar for every unique comment on my cancer post. This year, I’m doing it again. I saw, on twitter, and elsewhere criticisms of similar campaigns, asking why it’s necessary to ask for comments: why not [...]

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They Say It’s Your Birthday…

29 September 2009

It’s my birthday, too, yeah. So, in honor of the day, in the tradition of bloggers everywhere, I present ten things you may not know about me… 1, I share a birthday with actress Jill Whelan. She and I have much in common: she starred in one of my favorite movies, Airplane!, and the wildly [...]

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Racing for the Cure

7 May 2009

On Sunday, I’ll be racing for the cure for breast cancer in honor of my grandmother. I would love your support. You can donate any amount here. All deductions are completely tax deductible! And if you’re in Philly, join my team! The more, the merrier!

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