It’s easy to take presents, a cake, and loads of friends and family singing happy birthday for granted. If that was your childhood, perhaps you just assume it’s everyone’s childhood. But that’s simply not the case. For many children growing up in difficult financial situations, a grand birthday party just isn’t in the cards.
Smog Alert Level Raised To Red In Beijing
After my trip through the Great American West last month, I’m seeing the environment through fresh eyes. The air in the plains of Nevada just felt fresher in my lungs than it does in our cities. Sure, some of that could have been the placebo effect. I was standing in the middle of flat land, without a building for 10 miles in any direction. Nothing but nature and natural, clean air in my lungs.
Second Servings Helps Feed Houston’s Hungry

Watch the video on ABC 13’s website here.
Has there ever been a bigger no-brainer on planet Earth than Second Servings of Houston?
The Syria Fund Is Making A Difference In Jordan
I wanted to share this video from The Syrian Fund. It’s a non-profit organization started by New Yorker’s Lexi Shereshewsky and Demetri Blaisdell. In a time of intense division both here and abroad, the couple is striving to make a difference in the refugee crisis effecting Syria.