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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, into […]

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 […]

Obama Wants You…To Volunteer

Jan 21, 2009

The National Day of Service might be over, but that doesn’t mean that your commitment to volunteerism has to end there. A while back, I mentioned that Obama’s acceptance speech […]

Sign Up For Singles CPR Today!

Jan 20, 2009

Okay, it’s official. Go ahead and sign up now: www.oregonredcross.org/SinglesCPR And spread the word! The more people who attend (and enjoy) our first installment, the more likely we’ll get to […]

Imagine The Trauma Of Losing Everything…

Jan 20, 2009

This weekend, I received an update from our Disaster Action Teams that almost brought me to tears. It didn’t initially sound like an unusual situation — a house fire, one […]

Top Chef. Hero.

Jan 20, 2009

I’ve shared my fandom of Bravo’s Top Chef before, but even though I enjoy the show, I never really felt one way or another about the judges. Well, that’s all […]