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Still Here!

In charity, holidays, homeless, stevens johnson syndrome, volunteer on 20 February 2011 with 3 comments

I’m happy to say I survived another Valentine’s Day, neurotically avoiding all candies offered to me. This has proven to be an even larger challenge than last year, due to my new job. In December, I started to volunteer at the Community Assistance Center, working the resource center front desk and distributing mail for our [...]

Slackers!

In charity, crochet, holidays, homeless, reno, volunteer on 9 December 2010 with 2 comments

I’ve been pretty slack on the blog lately – holiday time is always busy, but fun! My biggest commitment right now has been making cards & collecting gifts for the Downtown Angel Tree… we have 161 kids to take care of this year, wow! It is a little bit scary when everyone likes to wait [...]

3rd Annual Warm Heads, Happy Hearts

In charity, family, homeless, nevada, reno on 22 November 2010 with 3 comments

Now that INDIE RENO is over & done (and was a raging success!! yeah!!) it is time for me to focus on my winter time projects! For the 3rd year in a row, I will be walking around downtown Reno handing out handmade hats to the homeless men, women and children in our community. I [...]

The Epic Road Trip – Chapter 2, Why I didn’t go to Royal Gorge

In charity, girl scouts, homeless, vacations on 17 August 2010 with 1 comment

Our journey continued on Tuesday with an early morning wake-up and continental breakfast. We lost an hour crossing over into Mountain Time, but I wasn’t too groggy yet. I started my collection of travel shampoos and soaps to make into hygiene kits* once we returned home. We started off again on Highway 50 East, and [...]