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My Birthday Wish: Day Five – Everyday Kindness

August 26, 2016

Before I jump into today's post, I just want to thank Brittany Badami for being the first to donate to my birthday campaign for Random Acts. Thank you, Brittany! If you've been following my recent posts, you'll remember that I've spent a little time each day taking apart a little piece of my recent Pecha Kucha talk about Random Acts and why kindness matters in the world. My goal is to talk a little bit about each of the 20 slides in that presentation (which you can watch right here). Today's … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wish: Day Five – Everyday Kindness

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My Birthday Wish: Day Four – Talk About Random!

August 25, 2016

Remember my friend Jean? I introduced you to her in yesterday's post about Random Acts' Annual Melee of Kindness. Well, I told you I'd share a little more about her, and so today, that's the plan. When I presented at my local Pecha Kucha Night a few weeks ago, I talked about reasons to choose kindness in everyday life. One of the reasons was because being kind is easier than you might think. I talked about making lunches for my kids, which is something I've done many times over the years. … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wish: Day Four – Talk About Random!

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My Birthday Wish: Day Three – What’s “AMOK”?

August 24, 2016

My birthday wish this year is to gather as much support for one of my favorite organizations, Random Acts. So from now until my birthday, I'm running a Crowdrise fundraiser to collect donations to help fund their mission of conquering the world one random act of kindness at a time. The Annual Melee of Kindness One of Random Acts' biggest events is the Annual Melee of Kindness (AMOK), where friends and supporters spend the day--or even the entire weekend!--spreading kindness in all kinds of … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wish: Day Three – What’s “AMOK”?

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My Birthday Wish: Day Two

August 23, 2016

When I was first given the opportunity to present at Pecha Kucha last month, I was really excited. As I've mentioned before, I love Random Acts and what they stand for. I wanted more people to know about them. I wanted people to understand what an impact this organization has had on my life. And then the shooting in Orlando happened. And a number of seemingly-innocent traffic stops turned deadly. And of course, it's an election year, so there's plenty of negativity going around there. I … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wish: Day Two

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My Birthday Wish: An Introduction

August 22, 2016

Welcome back to my oft-neglected blog! Seems like writing is becoming less of a passion and more of a hobby lately. And that's okay! I just have to trust that there will be time for me to return to writing for longer stretches of time, sometime in the hopefully-not-too-distant future. But today, I wanted to write about my birthday wish. If you follow me on social media at all, you'll notice that over the past year I've become enamored with the organization Random Acts. Founded by actor … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wish: An Introduction

Filed Under: Blog, Life Tagged With: birthday, kindness, Random Acts

More Magic from Pens to Lens

August 18, 2015

I'm taking a slight break from work craziness and back-to-school preparations to share with you the latest developments in local cinema. For those of you who don't know, we have a very rich local filmmaking community here in central Illinois (I know you're surprised!). These talented people give of their time every year to take five-page scripts written by kids and turn them into legit films. In three short years, this labor of love has become a full-fledged, red carpet gala event, housed in the … [Read more...] about More Magic from Pens to Lens

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