My apologies for being AWOL last week. I was sick as a dog. While everyone else on the East Coast (and much of America) was sweating through a heatwave, I was buried under mounds of covers with an electric blanket set on “7″ and shivering because I still couldn’t get warm from a raging fever. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘earthquake’
16 Jan
Rescue Dogs
As time flies by and the mission in Haiti tips dangerously toward that line of demarcation between “rescue” and “recovery”…some of the hardest working suppliers of assistance are the emergency rescue dogs. They will be the ones to locate survivors, and there are several from agencies from many nations on the ground now, sniffing at [...]
4 Oct
Disaster Relief
It is an incredibly turbulent time in terms of natural disasters/incidents in too many parts of the world right now. Indonesia, Vietnam, and American Samoa have been ravaged by disasters in the last week. Typhoon Ondy ripped through Vietnam with torrential rain, causing widespread flooding and loss of life. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake triggered tsunamis [...]
3 Jun
Purse Surplus
Ain’t no big thing for a huge celebrity to part with a handbag or twelve…they get a whole lot of them, and other swag, free. BUT, it is a great thing when such simple shedding of excess can go toward the global good. Salvatore Ferragamo is supporting L’Aquila, and the Italian region’s efforts to rebuild [...]
