I recently learned that a psychology team in Afghanistan brought a few therapy service dogs with them to help the troops. There is reason to believe that these dogs will be very helpful for the troops as they help keep spirits high and ease the mental and physical stresses associated with combat.
Since World War II, [...]
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Worthy Causes
The winner for the give-away items sponsored by Lead-Free Kids is comment #5! Congrats, Victoria! I will be contacting you shortly via e-mail.
Have you checked out that shiny new badge on my home-page for Lead-Free Kids? If you feel as strongly as I do about the prevention of lead-poisoning, a serious health problem that affects [...]
I was recently contacted on behalf of the Ad Council, the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, the Environmental Protection Agency and Housing And Urban Development (HUD) in the hope to help spread more awareness about lead-based poisoning. These four agencies have joined forces to create a new website devoted to the dangers of lead. [...]
Be a hero and help save the life of a 4 year old girl.
If you live in the Orange County/Los Angeles area, please consider attending the bone marrow donor drive tomorrow (April 6, 2010) in Garden Grove, CA for 4 year old Kaili Nguyen.
Kaili is battling MDS Leukemia and a bone marrow transplant is her [...]
Did you know that the month of April has been designated Alcohol Awareness Month? I didn’t either until I was contacted on behalf of the new Underage Drinking website, which was developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This new public education website was created in support of the Surgeon General’s call [...]
This past Friday, I joined a group of other mom bloggers for a special event to help build a new playground for the community of Inglewood, CA. The new playground, which was sponsored by the non-profit group KaBOOM!, Kool-Aid, and the city of Inglewood, is part of the KaBOOM! initiative to promote healthy and safe [...]
I don’t care what career my child has when he grows up. He can be any kind of lawyer he wants to be.
I’m kidding. Really. I truly don’t care what career my child chooses when he grows up, as long as it brings him joy and fulfillment…and doesn’t harm anyone in the process. What I [...]
I was born and raised in earthquake country. I have never lived anywhere that didn’t have an active fault line within 50 miles. I have no idea how many I’ve been through, but they never get any easier. Those mere seconds of shaking and rolling ground can be the scariest seconds of your life. I [...]
