Helping Reach The Children Charity

I have teamed up with Reach the Children to help bring much-needed health and other humanitarian services to needy people in Africa.  The charity’s current programs include education (general skills, AIDS prevention, and health), micro-enterprise, orphan care, water & agriculture, and community empowerment initiatives to help people help themselves (http://reachthechildren.org/).  Through the end of the year, all of the proceeds from on-line Amazon sales of my book I Love Rochester New York book will go directly to the charity.  And a full 100% of donations to this Rochester-based charity go straight to the organization’s programs in 13 African countries.  Making a donation will never be sweeter.  Get some books for holiday gifts and help make life better for others.

To order the book go to: http://www.amazon.com/I-Love-Rochester-New-York/dp/0615505139/ref=?ie=UTF8&m=A2FVSQDGQBEV04.

Stony Brook State Park

Fall in New York is a delightful time as trees take on their often-brilliant red and yellow hues.  This year my wife and I returned to Stony Brook State Park, one of our favorite Fall destinations in New York State.  Again, we were not disappointed.

Stars and Stripes

I have taken note of how many products are either designed with a stars and stripes motif or are packaged with such a patriotic theme.  So I have begged, borrowed, and scrounged a variety of such products for a composite picture of some such items.  In the process I’ve learned that just because a product projects itself as an American product doesn’t mean that it is.  While I didn’t check the origin of every product in this picture, I can say that at least one was made in China and one came from Sweden.  Can you guess which ones these are?