The Perfect Valentine’s Day Concert Without Leaving Home. Low Cost, No Cost? Here are some opportunities for those looking for that last minute special way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Today, Feb 14, 2021, Valentine’s Day is the 338th day since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. If you are …
I did not know Chip Kennett, but his death affected me because just a year earlier I had met cancer research evangelist Dave Bjork. He, too, was diagnosed with lung cancer in his early 30s. He, too, has never smoked and as a survivor has become a real advocate for putting money directly in the hands of researchers and for raising awareness of the work that needs to be done. The stigma around lung cancer as a smoker’s disease has hampered progress and yet, more than 20 percent of all lung cancer patients today are non-smokers.
Hindsight is 2020! We’ve all heard that term used as a means of looking backward with perfection. But for the year 2020 there are few that want to linger there. Most people I know want to leave 2020 in the rear view mirror as quickly as possible and zoom forward to a better year. Not …
And this is where COVID-19 has opened the door to deeper discussions. Perhaps we should not be trying to put together things the way they were because things will never be exactly the same as they were when we adults went to school. We need a partnership between students, entrepreneurs, parents, schools, businesses and government to make it all work.
There was BC (before COVID) and there will be AC (after COVID) but things will never be the same. Today’s communicast takes an international perspective and you will come away with the clear understanding that we are all in this together.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLxpkFDO5E&w=560&h=315] Communicast’s Keith Spiro with Manchester School District ESL teacher Elizabeth Leone Do you know what day of the week it is? Does it even matter during this covid10 quarantine? If you’re teaching your kids at home via remote learning or find yourself mindlessly searching your smartphone for something to occupy your time, maybe …
Mr. O and I have worked together before but never like this. I enjoyed Lego club with our family’s second-grader but when remote learning started, I found myself pressed into service as a para-professional by my recently-returned from-retirement teacher/wife. Seemingly overnight, we transformed our favorite living space into a one-room-schoolhouse to accommodate the kindergartener, second- and fourth-graders ensconced there.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRsmPCMBN4c] Hearing Tom Blonski speak about Catholic Charities NH, you come away in awe of the synergy between gratitude and advocacy that drives the much-appreciated leadership of this organization. Tom is President and CEO of New Hampshire’s Catholic Charities celebrating their 75th year of service. They are one of the largest nonprofit agencies in …
Staff and residents are doing some amazing things like channeling their energy into creating masks for medical professionals and thank you cards for essential hospital staff. They’ve adopted a Choose Love program and have also seen love returned to them via donations used for special treats – and pizzas ordered and delivered to them