Last Friday was Remembrance Day. Those guys are my heroes. Fighting in unbelievable conditions for people like me, whom they’ve probably never even met (or…
Well, technically, they never really disappeared as you can order all year long, but… Last year I wrote a blog post on “Christmas and Compassion“. …
A friend of ours posted a blog entry the other day when he was trying to donate to the famine tragedy in the Somalia. I…
Yes, we are suckers for these kids, that’s for sure. But how could you NOT be when you see their pictures and hear their stories…
It’s been way too long since I last posted. It’s not that there’s been nothing to talk about, nor has it been that I had…
Water. It’s one of those things we totally take for granted here in the West. We walk to a tap, turn on the faucet, and…
My birthday is Wednesday. I don’t need anything, so don’t even think about it. BUT…. if you really want to get something for my birthday,…
The following was taken from Compassion Canada’s webpage here. In the early morning hours of March 11, 2001, Japan was struck by a powerful 8.9…
Did you know that today is “World Water Day”? I didn’t until I read this post from Compassion… Water…. it’s a thing we take for…
Tomorrow is the beginning of Lent and according to that fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia, here’s how Lent is described… Lent in the Christian tradition,…