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Creating an HIV-Free Generation
Addressing Perceptions, Misconceptions, and Taking Action In high school, I volunteered for my local AIDS Project. Along with my peers, I talked at schools around the county—together, we educated teens about safe sex, harm reduction, and living HIV positive. We asked the students questions about how the disease is contracted, what type of person gets [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Charity: Make it Your Wedding’s “Something New”
When planning a wedding, online access to friends’ wedding albums, DIY blogs, a parade of competing vendors and a plethora of websites can be inspiring…and overwhelming. In an industry where advice is handed out like candy and society sets expectations for everything from ring size to dress size to guest list, it‘s hard to remember [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Your year-end checklist: Resolve to give back starting now
I’ve noticed in recent years that resolutions have become a thing of the past. People don’t want to create unrealistic goals and feel the let down of not living up to their own expectations. Or perhaps they just find it cliché and instead resolve not to resolve. For me, December 31st is a simple marker [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )Wait. There are how many days ’til Christmas?
Twelve. (And Hanukkah is in just a week!) Despite all the emails, ads, music, and festive decorations (not to mention the holiday clichés all around) – it’s easy to put off shopping while your list continues to grow. The stress of what to get, how much to spend, and the time it takes to wrap [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Homes for the holidays
What does home mean to you? Is it simply the roof over your head? Your life’s savings or investment? Where you raised your children and where your family gathers for the holidays? Having a place to call home is the pillar of the American Dream and the center of our childhood memories. As the weather [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Four ways to feed the hungry
Each Thanksgiving, my family makes it a priority to have dinner together. Even when I was living abroad for my first holiday away from home, my dad booted up Skype so that I could join in the festivities virtually. For us, it’s not just the meal that’s important. It’s taking time off of work, turning off our [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Keep your “stuff,” I want CHANGE!
I Care: About supporting charity. It’s my thing. My Friends: They’re everywhere. Facebook. Twitter. Google+ (I’ve got circles and hangouts galore). I even have blogosphere followers. Okay so they probably aren’t all friends, but in the social media generation, I’ve got a big network that reaches from the kids I went to elementary school with, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Peace, Remembrance, and Service
Peace. A word that conjures images of symbols and hand gestures, the sounds of The Beatles, history lessons about the 60‘s, hippies and anti-war movements, and memories of idealism and hope. But peace shouldn’t just be an ideal of the past or a part of today’s media hype. With 2011 marking the ten-year anniversary of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Women role models, World travel, and Weighty lessons
An American Girl As a young girl, my mom told me that I could do anything and be anything–and I believed her. I took the classes I wanted, played the sports I wanted, and wore what I wanted (much to the dismay of my future self as I look back now on old photos). Today, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Planting trees with money?
The old adage says, “money doesn’t grow on trees.” We all learned that the hard way and the new question for today’s generation is: “How do we make trees grow with money?” Over the past couple years the environment has jumped to the top of the list of global concerns along with world hunger, HIV/AIDS and [...]
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