It was the charitable shot heard round the world. Susan G. Komen for the Cure, or Komen as it is known to most donors is the largest, best-known breast cancer organization in the United States (if not the world). In early 2012, the charitable organization walked into a firestorm of criticism when it announced that…
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…
It’s the seventh day of my 12 Days of Charitable Giving. To recap, I’ve asked a panel of judges to review a number of deserving charities as suggested by my readers. I’ll be posting one a day for – well, 12 days (I’m clever that way). I encourage you to check out the charities voted…
My maternal grandmother may be responsible for my current coffee addiction. She used to let me drink a little bit of coffee – with a lot of milk – as she drank her own coffee (all day long). It was the beginning of a life long love affair, though now I drink it black, the…