Oh, loves, it has been a YEAR.
Since I’m in a share-y kinda mood, here’s this great piece I read the other day. You know how (many, many, many) of you feel like this was an utterly write-off-able year? Here’s the awesome thing: It actually was moderately/pretty close to wonderfully wonderful.
Want to keep it that way for 2017 and check off some last-minute gifts at the very same time?
Donate here:
To help the people of Syria, the Red Cross has teamed up with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent to help with every aspect of support and survival. (It’s timely, too; you know who else was a Middle Eastern child in dire need of shelter and help from a community? Jesus.)
Truth time: Planned Parenthood saved my life when I a) had no health insurance (yet worked three jobs), b) had exploding ovaries in dire need of surgery, and c) had zero doctors returning my calls. They were kind, they were instrumental in securing my- ultimately free– surgery, and they were absolutely eye-opening to the incredible services they provide day in and day out. Don’t let misinformation deny anyone the help that, quite literally, doesn’t exist elsewhere.
As adorable as it is to say that our actions don’t affect the environment, the ozone, the Earth, the oceans, or those crazy, crazy weather patterns, it might be a better use of our time to ensure that we don’t have a full-blown Lorax situation on our hands by the time our kids need to do outside stuff with their own kids. Start here!
I’ll see you in late January, my darling, darling friends. (Don’t miss me too much; I’ll still be loitering on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook, and you can read the positively excessive amount of stuff I’ve written– both in print and online- for Chicago Parent right here.)
2017’s coming: We’ll make it good.
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