I’ve just come back home after spending a few hours at a nursing home as part of the Holiday Project (www.holidayproject.org). According to the team lead, 60% of people in nursing home never get visitors, even over the holidays. So, the Holiday Project lines up volunteers to visit people in nursing homes during Thanksgiving, Christmas, [...]
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I’m as anti-smoking as any non-smoker. So it was a surprise when I found myself tempted to buy a pack of cigarettes for someone Monday afternoon. Better explain: As I waited at the Rhode Island platform to catch the Red Line, and old guy in an old-fashioned, manual wheelchair asked me for some change for lunch. [...]
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As I prepare to move the “Get Out and Give Back” blog and newspaper column to a bigger writing/speaking/coaching venue, I realized that I’d been spending too much time in the last few months holed up developing the business and not enough time contributing and serving. So, yesterday (Wednesday) I pried my fingers off of my laptop [...]
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What an amazing way to spend Veterans’ Day! My husband and I were invited to attend the Mission Serve kickoff event at George Washington University. Part of the ServeNation coalition, Mission Serve is the civilian-military initiative comprised of 33 partnerships (mostly non-profits and NGOs) committed to serve the men and women of the armed forces, [...]
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It was my second trip to the area in as many months.
My first was with a group of Furman University students who are members of an on campus United Methodist group called Wesley Fellowship. It was their spring break and the second trip to the area for many in the group. Their choice had been [...]
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