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Adam preparing boxes for the workers to use in making bags of food for the children: Sealing the bags: Filling the bags: Tom McNamara workin...

You may know a lot of this, but it is time to do a family update. Charlene was in Haiti in February. I am putting a picture at the bottom o...

Matt and I got his passport application submitted today, hopefully in plenty of time to get here before our April trip. He and I and brother...

I spent most of yesterday hanging fliers around the neighborhood for my upcoming book signing. I am excited about the book signing; it was w...

I have taken my email to the cloud. For years I have used Outlook and later Windows Mail to download my email to my computer and have worked...

It's frustrating. I wrote this once, then lost it. So I'm going to try again. In a way it's a metaphor for last year's resol...

Here's a lengthier article on how to (more about how not to) help people in third world countries. From the New Yorker