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Disaster Housing: A New Strategy

Jan 26, 2009

A while back, I did a post for Apartment Therapy about FEMA trailers and how people managed to pack their entire lives into pretty tiny spaces after Hurricane Katrina. The […]

Boosting Your Iron With Breakfast

Jan 26, 2009

Have you ever gone to give blood and been turned away because your iron’s a little low? It happens to the best of us, including many right here in our […]

Tonight: “Live To Tell: Who Survives?” On 20/20

Jan 24, 2009

You’re walking along the Oregon Coast, enjoying a fine day at the beach. But something strange catches your eye. It’s the water. It looks….well, frothy. And it keeps coming closer […]

Celebrate The Year Of The Ox With Us!

Jan 23, 2009

Are you totally stoked about the Year of the Ox?  Good! Come celebrate with us at the Chinese New Year Cultural Fair tomorrow. To quote our volunteer manager, “I understand […]

Inauguration Day: We Rock For Barack

Jan 23, 2009

Jan. 20, 2009 — I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d probably be up the night before Inauguration Day, and was I ever right… Up at midnight, shower, shave, […]

See Us On Lovelab!

Jan 22, 2009

Check it out — Singles CPR is on the front page of the Portland Mercury’s Lovelab personals! IMHO, Lovelab is THE site to find cute PDX singles. You know, the […]

High Schooler Helps Identify How Hurricanes Intensify

Jan 22, 2009

A hurricane is not one, big, homogenous blob of swirling weather. It’s made of many individual bands of rain.  So when they say the eye of the storm is growing, […]

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Jan 21, 2009

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the major (and sometimes small, but interesting) international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of nice little bite-sized […]

Flickr Finds: A Red Cross Welcome

Jan 21, 2009

See more Red Cross photos from the Inauguration right here.

What Is…The Red Cross?

Jan 21, 2009

Do you Jeopardy? I used to…every night. It was always a competition around the house to see who could come up with the right answer first. Thank goodness it was […]