Tag Archives: Family

Thanks to All Who Have Blogged About the Fresh Air Fund

Thank you to all of the bloggers who have blogged about the Fresh Air Fund on their blogs over the last couple weeks!  Please explore the posts below:

Fresh Air Fund Needs Host Families posted by Jane at Above Average Jane
Help Give A Kid A Break This Summer (US readers) posted by Lindsay at Activity Village […]

Boing Boing Shout Out to the Fresh Air Fund

Thanks to Xeni Jardin and John Brownlee over at Boing Boing and Boing Boing Gadgets for giving a shout out to my client and worthy cause, Fresh Air Fund, as they come into a crunch in their need to place 200 kids who are still lacking host families for August, Give low-income city kids a […]

I Need 200 Families Willing to Host a Child in August

My firm, Abraham Harrison, and I are helping the Fresh Air Fund place 200 inner-city kids from New York City into country homes for a free summer vacation this summer.  Please help me out — help me share the opportunity far and wide! The Fresh Air Fund has provided free summer vacations to New York […]

The American Revolution of Overcoming by Jerry White

This is an op-ed written by Jerry White, founder of Survivor Corps and author of I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, on the Fourth of July, 2008:
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” These are not the words of a […]

The Webb GI Bill Finally Signed Into Law

I am very pleased that Senator Jim Webb was able to get his Bill, the Webb GI Bill, signed into law because I have been ashamed of the way our government shows its appreciation to our vets of foreign wars, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Webb is right, some of the most […]

No Matter What They Say College is Not for Everyone

I have finally gotten around to catching up on all the Atlantics that have piled up in my absence in Berlin. One very compelling article is an anonymous essay written by “Professor X,” In the Basement of the Ivory Tower.
I am still trying to sort out my thoughts on this — please excuse the disjointed […]

I Hope a Whale Beaches Itself On You

My friend Momotaro, the fellow who created the banner for Memes.org, was so amused by the first comment that someone posted onto my blog post, Don’t Save the Whales and Don’t Save the Rainforest Either, that he created the following anthology of really intelligent put-downs, I Hope a Whale Beaches Itself On You — it […]

Doctors Are the Perfect Marks for Spycraft

An excerpt from my never-to-be-completed and never-to-be-published self-amusement novel, Hill Mole, about how perfect being a doc is for both getting away with affairs and spycraft — and how worthwhile they are as recruits as spies. From the chapter Doctors Have Been Known to Lose Patients:

In spycraft, there is no better recruit than a doctor. […]

Will an Expansion Dilute or Expand the Yale Brand?

Richard C. Levin, the President of Yale, just popped its alumni an email announcing the expansion of Yale College — growing the hallowed university by two residential colleges:
I am pleased to announce that the Yale Corporation has authorized increasing the enrollment of Yale College through the creation of two new residential colleges. This […]

On Survivor Corps’ Blogger Outreach

Norman Birnbach just posted the first part in a series of articles about a recent blogger PR outreach that my company, Abraham Harrison, did on behalf of Survivor Corps. It is a very generous article and everyone here is very pleased.
Our goal for the Survivor Corps campaign was to promote both the introduction of Survivor […]