Archive for October, 2008
On Getting Another Year Older
Tomorrow will mark my 32nd birthday.
If you would’ve told me at, say, age 24, that I’d still be excited for birthdays at number 32, I’d probably have thought you were crazy.
But here we are, and I am!
As a very wise man (who is celebrating birthday number 80-something on Sunday) told me:
Never count your years;
count your blessings.
Indeed. And it’s hard not to be excited when you have so many blessings.
Thank you all for being a part of my life, tanti auguri to Frank,
and buon weekend a tutti!
love thursday: spreading the love
I usually share one, two, maybe three photos of love on Thursdays, but this week, I want to share 20 gorgeous hearts that I found on Flickr for 20 times the love:
1. August 6th 2008 – Leave a Little Room In Your Heart, 2. Heart, 3. String of hearts, 4. Latte HeArt, 5. Heart-shaped clouds, 6. A green heart for you !! have a sweet and nice weekend., 7. heart-on-a-stick, 8. Peanut Butter Cup Heart, 9. hearts, 10. Heart potato, 11. Strawberry Heart, 12. under my umbrella, 13. Have a Heart…, 14. Sam’s back heart, 15. My Gypsy Heart, 16. Eat your heart out, 17. Nature’s Heart., 18. heart & moon Taipei 101 (ii), 19. M&M Heart, 20. Tangled Heart <3
Why not spread the love and visit some of these fab photographers?
Me, I’m partial to that peanut butter cup. YUMMY LOVE!
What’s your favorite heart?
Here’s wishing you a love-filled Love Thursday!
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty
Last year we talked about the environment, and this year the topic is poverty.
If you haven’t signed up to join Blog Action Day 2008 yet, there’s still time so long as it’s still 15 October where you are. Go here, sign up, and get writing!
Alternately, you can simply promote the event or even donate your day’s earnings to microfinance a loan through a fabulous organization like Kiva, which I’ve told you about before, or to a charity like CARE, which I’ve recently become a part of.
CARE was founded in America after World War II to provide relief for survivors in Europe; since then it has evolved into one of the leading humanitarian organizations fighting global poverty. Here is some more information on the organization from CARE’s website:
We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
I have signed up as an online volunteer with CARE to help fight global poverty and to ask my friends and family to get involved–by donating, by sending emails to government leaders, and by making their voices heard regarding issues like action in Darfur, world hunger, violence against women, and more.
Need more inspiration to take a stand on poverty today?
Pasta al Forno con Melanzane – Baked Pasta with Eggplant
One of my favorite ways to enjoy eggplant — baked with pasta in the oven.
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Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Changed the World by Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish
There’s a little bit of something for all interests within these 50 essays, and it’s especially convenient because you can read one at a time and let the information resonate or skip around to where your interests lead you.
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Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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