When my nephew planned to visit us over spring break, I panicked. How do you entertain a 16-year-old boy for four days? I thought he might like the play Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center, a witty comedy with lots of audience participation. I logged onto the Kennedy Center’s website and scanned the available [...]
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Thursday mornings are my most favorite time of the week. That’s when I spend two or three hours helping the underserved in our community at a neighborhood church. Most of the people who show up are regulars, and I’ve gotten to know them by name, if not by face.
I’m torn between what I can do [...]
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I ran into Lenore last week on my way to do my Wednesday service work at our church. Lenore was with a younger guy, and she was walking away from the church entrance, not toward it. Knowing that Lenore normally shows up on Wednesdays to get food and some help with her bills, I asked [...]
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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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A long time ago my dad decided to give one percent of the gross sales from his lumberyard business to the poorest village in the western hemisphere. Through a little research he was partnered with a village outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For years he sent a check to a French nun down there and in [...]
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by guest columnist Eileen Katz-Schulman
Giving back. Far too often, this simple phrase is used as an indication of punishment. When a child takes a toy that is not his, he must give it back. High priced executives took tax payer money as bonuses, despite their involvement in the mismanagement of the company, and were made [...]
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