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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July, I think, is our most patriotic month. Maybe it’s the explosion of fireworks on the fourth day, or that all of America turns red, white and blue, or that last weekend my husband and I were lucky enough to see Tiger Woods honor military veterans throughout the week as he played and won the [...]
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There’s a special place in heaven for customer service representatives who work the other end of a phone line. I read an on-line story a few months back about how even the meekest of us can be abusive on the phone. Something about the facelessness of it all gave them permission to release their inner [...]
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Every holiday season I get an email from The Holiday Project (www.holiday-project.org) chapter in my area inviting me to sing at a nursing home. Figuring there was safety in numbers (i.e., someone in the group could actually sing and drown out my screeching) I’ve joined them a few times.
The Holiday Project’s homepage states that more [...]
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