It’s the twelfth and final day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving. Our featured charity, To Love A Canine, is an organization that rescues dogs from kill shelters and works to put them in loving, forever homes.
It’s the tenth day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving. Our featured charity, Sepsis Alliance, works to prevent sepsis – the leading cause of death in American. Remarkably, seven out of ten Americans have never even heard of sepsis.
It’s the sixth day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving. Our featured charity, Feeding America, tackles the problem of America’s hungry. Think you know what hunger looks like? Check out these statistics and find out how to help.
It’s the second day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving! Today we feature Flashes of Hope, an organization which provides families of children with cancer with portraits – along with a cool photo shoot. The organization touches the lives of about half of all children with cancer in the country.
I was a fat kid. There’s no sugar-coating it. I started out Southern beauty pageant cute a la Honey Boo Boo together with a combination of questionable genetics and a love of deep-fried foods. My brothers were encouraged to be athletes, I was not. Girls did not play soccer. Girls did not run cross country….
Teenagers and young adults of low socioeconomic status who have a history of in-depth arts involvement earn better grades and have higher rates of college enrollment and attainment than those that are not exposed to the arts. They are more likely to work in a professional career, volunteer, vote, and read a newspaper. In fact,…
Sea turtles inhabit all of the world’s oceans except the Arctic. There are seven species of sea turtles; five of these are found in my home state of North Carolina. The most abundant species in North Carolina is the loggerhead that nests annually on our beaches. Loggerhead and green sea turtles are listed as “threatened”…
When a crisis hits, we tend to think big. But what if helping was as simple as finding relief inside a green box? ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that provides temporary shelter and life-saving supplies to displaced families. These families could be displaced due to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami, or conflict….
My brother got married yesterday. He’s in the military so the service was arranged in between deployments. His new wife understands that their lives will be largely like this: planning for birthdays, anniversaries and other events in between being shipped in and out. It is tough but it is the life that he signed on…
Last night, the power came back on in our house, following an outage due to Hurricane Sandy. We were lucky to have the power back on so quickly: our power company, PECO Energy, called Sandy “the most damaging storm in company history.” Many of my friends are still without power and have been told that…