Beginning a second week of snow days….

The weather in the Northwest has been very unusual since last Sunday. We missed an entire week of school and then after already being home for days we received the biggest snow storm we have seen in more than 30 years. It’s beautiful but also hard to get around. Unfortunately, the northwest doesn’t have alot [...]

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Snow Days continue

It’s hard to do too many mitzvahs from home although I guess cards and calls would work well. Unfortunately, the noise level in my house has been pretty high.
Anyway, I have had extra time to spend on the web and I have a few new colleagues to share. I am not the only one working [...]

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Snow Day Mitzvahs

We had an amazing snow storm yesterday. Compared to the snowstorms in the east this would seem like nothing. However, in a city with very few snow plows  a few inches can paralyze the whole city. It’s a wonderful gift and something we have always loved about living out west. You aren’t expected to go [...]

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Bottles and Coins

A few quick mitzvahs to record.
850) Donated a bag of bottles to our school via our local supermarket.
851) Gave some change to the local recreation center donating for the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

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A Visit to the Hospital

Is it just me or does it seem that in December there are so many more people doing good deeds? There are the volunteers for the salvation army ringing their bells, every company seems to be having a food drive, toy drive or clothing drive and at every cash register there are extra places to [...]

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Helping a stranger

841) Today I was on my way to Target to pick up a gift card. I wasn’t in a hurry and when I arrived I saw an older couple. The wife was in a wheelchair and the husband was trying to push her and balance a large box of items they had purchased. I offered [...]

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Trash and food mitzvahs

I mentioned last week that in Judaism when someone dies we commemorate  that anniversary on the Hebrew date so it changes from year to year. We call it a yartzeit and today was my father’s 2nd one. I observed the day by going to synagogue where I had gone each morning to say the mourners [...]

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Mitten Tree project

830) Volunteered today in my son’s classroom.
831) Donated money at a restaurant for a kids holiday toy/clothing drive.
832) Today was collection day for the mitten tree project. What an amzing feeling it was to have so many colleagues participate. The woman went above and beyond the request we had made. Many of them bought more [...]

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Two mitzvahs and a thought

828) Today I donated some items for the 2nd grade class project next week – Making Gingerbread Houses.
829) Also, complimented someone on her really cute haircut, she said that was how she looked right out of bed. Wow is she lucky.
Drove by a home made memorial on the side of the road near my house. [...]

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Two year anniversary since my father died….

Today is December 1, 2008. My father died two years ago today. His death also coincides with my son’s birthday which turns out to be a wonderful blessing. Solomon was so excited today to turn 8. I had left three gifts on the table and he was so happy to find them when [...]

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