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Would You Like to Buy a Hug?

No really. I mean it. The Global Hug Tour is a project conceived by Gail Lynne Goodwin and her husband Darryl. I met Gail at SOBCon09 (seriously. I still have SO much material from that one conference) and she is wonderful. Gail’s main blog is InspireMeToday,...

Matching the Fresh Air

I wrote about the Fresh Air Fund a few months ago. This is a really neat ministry in which inner-city kids are matched up with families who live outside the city for a summer vacation. Sara Wilson, the outreach coordinator of Fresh Air, contacted me recently with some...

City Chic

Hahaaaaa, you didn’t think I was done talking about SOBCon, did you? Nope! Today I want to introduce you to a cool chick I met at the conference. Sherry blogs at CityChicOnAFarm, where she focuses on her favorite charities, her dislike of cooking, how much she...

Three Things

1. I was poking around cyberspace a while back and found a site called Buzz Voice. It’s a pretty neat site though, so I signed up. It’s free to use. What it does is read blog posts aloud for you. Yes!! It really does. So, if you are dying to hear my posts...

Caring For China – UPDATED

I learned about a new nonprofit group today called Caring For China (CFC). Luke Gedeon is the executive director of the CFC center and it was his post over at Middlezone Musings that got my attention. Luke has entered CFC in a group writing project; the nonprofit that...

DoFollow and Affiliate links: A Discussion

What I’m about to type will probably mean very little to readers who do not also have blogs. If you’re in that category, feel free to skip down to the next section. 🙂 When I started blogging two years ago one of the things I did was make this a DoFollow...