Making a Difference

Hold onto your wallets, it’s getting close to that time of year. Christmas. Before I go into why I’m starting to panic about Christmas (and that can wait for another day), first it’s time to open again my Christmas Card Challenge, following on last year’s successful one. For those of you who don’t know what [...]

Jasmin has this project running that began last week, and boy was I excited when I learned a bit more about it. She, along with Incentive House,  came up with an idea: that bloggers could earn up to $1000 for the  Opportunity International Microfinance Fundraiser. By writing a post on the subject we bloggers could earn a $100 for the [...]

You’ll notice this badge on my right column, and it has been there for some time now. Thanks to many generous people, both during my Christmas Card Challenge and even before, we raised $385 in 2008. Considering the recent credit crunch all over the world, I think that is a respectable total. If you care [...]

…about my Christmas Card Challenge. There’s only a few days left! Before I left for holidays I spent the best part of an entire afternoon going through all the comments from this year and collecting the email addresses for the recipients of the e-card (and possibly the prize!). It was quite an interesting exercise, as [...]