Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

Back in November 2012, the students of Ladywell Primary School in Motherwell, Scotland decided to release a recording of O Holy Night for charity. A pupil of the school, Caden Beggan was only six years old when he contracted to meningococcal septicaemis. Sadly, he succumbed to the disease on November 20. 90% of sales from [...]

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By far the most fragrant package to arrive on my door this holiday season was a box from Nourish Natural Bath Products. My skin is the most sensitive of just about anyone I know. If I put on so much as a thin layer of sunscreen or deodorant, I’ll get a bad rash and itch [...]

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I admit, there was a time when I was mildly obsessed with finding some YouTube clips of John Travolta and Olivia Newton John performing together again. Their chemistry in 1978′s Grease was  one of the best in musicals of that era, not to mention the chemistry and fun of the case, and both of course [...]

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Well, December is here and the Christmas shopping season is fully underway. Growing up, I always loved receiving the Swiss Colony catalog in the mail. I don’t know exactly what it was, but there was something about Chris Mouse, Petit Fours, and blocks of cheese and sausages that was magical. Mind you, these were the [...]

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Every day on my commute home through Manhattan I pass by the Macy’s on 34th Street. This time of year is always fun, because they’ve just launced the new store windows. Sadly, this year they’ve decided not to put up the multi-window display they do every year that recreates scenes from the classic Miracle on 34th [...]

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When I visited the Web site of KiteChild, I was immediately struck by the statistics flashing in the corner. On of them said that every day, 5,760 more children become orphans. Another said that every 2.2 seconds, a child loses a parent somewhere in the world. Another said that by 2015 it is projected that there [...]

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My wife got me hooked on Plants vs. Zombies on my iPad a while ago, and since then I’ve been hooked. Over 120 million people around the world play it too. It looks like a complicated game, at least compared to relatively brainless (no pun intended) games like Angry Birds and Bejeweled. But once you [...]

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