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Serving others makes you Rich

Posted on 12/19/2012 by | Volunteering | Comments

Volunteering | Your LifeRecently, I was travelling across the upper plains, when I woke up to the thermometer reading negative 26 degrees. I hadn’t experienced these kinds of temperatures since I lived in Minnesota as a child. Yet, somehow, I forgot that the cold can really sting. I forgot that the weather can change drastically in an instant. I forgot that you don’t sit next to a drafty door in a coffee shop. I simply forgot that Jack Frost is still a formidable …

Deep in the Mayan Jungle: An Expat That Transformed a Community

Posted on 12/19/2012 by | Retiring Overseas | Comments

Travel | Volunteering | Your LifeThink you’d like to retire overseas but don’t know what you’ll do once you get there? Many people who retire abroad use the opportunity to not only reinvent themselves, but to become helpful resources in their new communities. Take Sandra Dayton, for example. In 1987, after first spending some time in Europe, she moved to Mexico with her husband, Dan. They settled in the little fishing pueblo of Puerto Morelos, about halfway between Cancun and Playa del Carmen on the …

The Essential Agreement of the Classroom

Posted on 12/17/2012 by | Washington D.C. | Comments

Volunteering  Maintaining discipline in a classroom of elementary school kids is seldom easy.  My teacher has a number of tactics that she uses.  When a couple of kids aren’t paying attention or picking at each other, she says, “I’ll wait.”  She then silently pauses her lesson, the room gets quiet, and the kids that aren’t focused realize all eyes are on them and they settle down. If things get worse and more kids “don’t have their eyes on the speaker …

Gifting Made Easy

Posted on 12/14/2012 by | Volunteering | Comments

VolunteeringAre you starting to feel the anticipation and anxiety of the Holidays? Well are you? No matter how much you plan, prepare, prod the spouse or pout the holiday season still makes most of our blood pressure rise sometimes between December first and the twenty fifth!  I have heard of every remedy imaginable to prevent this roller coaster of emotions, but honestly none of them work. However, now after living over a half of a century, I might just have the …

At 100, Still Supporting the Troops One Shoebox at a Time

Posted on 12/12/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | VolunteeringThere’s no slowing down for Lilly Nutter. The superstar volunteer who devotes her time to organizing and sending shoebox care packages to soldiers was on her way out the door to yet another celebration when I reached her today — her 100th birthday. To date, Nutter, of Warren, Ind., has sent 1,181 boxes to troops and is still going strong as she celebrates reaching the centennial mark. The Chicago native already had had five parties and has two more to …

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