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Hello! I've been thoroughly enjoying my gives lately, it is true that when you get in the habit - it comes back to you ten-fold! While I'm not keeping track as strictly as I did in the first 29 days, here's a summary:



*I saw an older lady on the bus who lived in the building I used to live in. She had two bags of groceries and I decided to jump off at her stop and walk her back to her apartment. Since I used to live there I know the front door and ancient elevator can be tricky… Continue

I'm in! Again! Ever since I completed my first 29 days back in April I think about this challenge all the time. Time to turn the good intentions in my head into real actions and start keeping track. This time I also want to try to help reach the goal of 2,000 givers by 7/29/08. I was an early member (#82 if I'm counting right :) and have this sense of responsibility to make it grow so more people can experience this giving rush. So today for my give I printed two Challenge fliers on the fancy… Continue

Just checking in, I'm in Rome and our hotel has a laptop in the shared sitting room making it so easy to jump on and get caught up. I've been keeping track of most of my days in my journal, but as a recap...



- I've offered to take photos of people in order to ensure their vacation scrapbooks include everyone that was there. Mostly couples, but once a whole class of Italian school kids, the teacher was so happy!

- We picked up trash on the path to a castle on a hill in Varenna… Continue

So I'm leaving for the airport in about an hour. My three week vacation to Europe with Jim is finally here! Seriously we've both been in denial since about 3pm this afternoon - might still be. Not saying we aren't prepared - we've been planning for weeks and weeks - it just seems like it would always be in the future, a little ways off...



As for the challenge - my blog posts will turn into journal entries and I'm looking forward to figuring out ways to give wherever I am. I might… Continue

I posted today's give in the forum