It has been over a month since I have written anything here. Unprecedented for me and I’m not here to explain or make excuses. Sometimes life takes over so thoroughly that one needs to check out, step back and let things settle. I [...]
If you read this blog, if you receive our calendar, if you ever look at our website – you know Ken Carl. You may not realize it, but you do. He created our poster child in this now-iconic image: He is responsible for many of our calendars [...]
I spent the last three weeks living out of bags. I took this photo on the 2nd day of my trip because it amused me and because I was traveling very light that particular day and feeling just a bit smug. But by the end of the trip, when I had [...]
There is always a story, isn’t there? This one began when we welcomed Ritesh Gupta into the Foundation. Ritesh was a Vodafone World of Difference volunteer and I thought about him as I do about all volunteers: Maybe. Maybe not. Don’t [...]
Something incredible happened today. It’s been in the making for over a decade, thought about actively for over two years, and actually planned for in the last few months. But today, it HAPPENED. We’ve been invited to set up a Help [...]
When Moy Moy was small, Shaila Faleiro – the first trained special educator we ever hired – used to come by our house on the odd Saturday morning to ask if she could “borrow Moy.” Borrowing Moy meant a few hours of fun [...]
I’m not a sporty person. I prefer watching the out doors from an inside window. I was a bookworm as a child and going to the library was my favorite activity. I like swimming because you can lie down to do it and you don’t work up a [...]