I am grateful for the health of my family. I am grateful for the security of my home. I am even grateful for the annoying cat. Okay maybe especially grateful for her. I am especially grateful for the community that has come together to support our neighbors in need. In honor of … [Read more...]
3rd Grader Organizes Book Drive for Casa Pacifica
Killian B., an Agoura Hills 3rd grader, is collecting gently used children's books for the foster children of Casa Pacifica. You drop your books off in the collection bin outside of Stevenson Fitness in Oak Park (at the corner of Kanan and Lindero Canyon). Her mother told me … [Read more...]
Kids Can Give Back With Charity Checks
I want to model giving back for my children. I have done this with my work for Help a Mother Out, a group that gets diapers to needy families. I do it with my volunteering at their school, and we do it together when we prepare donations of our gently used goods to local … [Read more...]
Lots of Happy Babies
Saturday afternoon, May 7. The 2011 Help a Mother Out Mother's Day Diaper Drive. I had spent the entire day outside the Westlake Village Fresh Brothers Pizza, which is in a fancy outdoor mall and trafficked by fancy people, most of whom looked at me oddly as I chirped "I'm … [Read more...]