Monthly Archives: September 2018

  I believe it is essential to pass the importance of assisting others on to our children, and I hope my husband and I have done so. When our girls were young, we gave them money at Christmas to buy gifts for each other, however, before they could buy these gifts, we asked that they choose a cause to donate to. Some years they chose books or toys…

Of all the days of this summer, the most memorable for me was the day my husband and I visited Mt. St. Helens in southwest Washington State. Though I have a clear recollection of the day the mountain blew 39 years ago, I did not remember the whole chain of catastrophe that took place. The volcano had an earthquake, causing the side of the mountain to collapse in…