Posts by author: Jill Ginsberg
Wow. I knew I had gotten behind in my giving but didn’t realize how much until I did the math just now. I’ve written 86 posts so far this year, and I know at least a couple of them were unrelated to a gift. That means it’s going to be a very busy month of […]
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To top off a wonderful weekend of family and friends, today I gave $100 to a fifth grader named Eli. I didn’t know his name was Eli until later, but he caught my attention at Fred Meyer when I overheard him discussing the prices of different items with his father. He seemed to have a […]
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It’s hard to believe we were in sunny Mexico just 48 hours ago. I offer just this one photo as proof (to myself, as well as others). I was freezing at work this morning and thought it was just me until I noticed my co-workers still wearing their coats and hats at 9:30. “Is it […]
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If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you know that our beloved cat, Patches, has been to the brink of death and back a number of times in the past months. I first wrote about her here and then again here. She’s been dwindling and we were pretty sure she was going to die […]
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Too far gone. That’s what I decided about the guy pushing a shopping cart down the street a few blocks from home. His eyes were watery and unfocused, his clothes filthy and his gait a painful shuffle. I told myself that my $100 couldn’t possibly make a dent in the mountain that is this man’s […]
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Want to know why I am sitting in the dark? With apologies to the droves of trick-or-treaters outside, I admit that I am in hiding. From them. It’s not that I don’t like kids. I don’t even really have anything against Halloween, except some of the stuff people do is kind of creepy. I even […]
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Best I can figure, I’ve given away 76 hundreds since the beginning of 2011. I have some catching up to do if I’m going to make my goal of 100 before the end of the year. What started as a tribute to my mother (and a way to confront my propensity for cheap-ness) has become […]
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A scene from last week’s trip East has really stayed with me. We were at the Dallas airport waiting for our flight to board. I had noticed a young family sitting nearby at the gate: a mother and father with two young children – a baby boy and a girl of about four. The little […]
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I’m always on the lookout for people who are having a bad day. The kind of bad day that can be turned into a good one with a small gift. Today, I got lucky. Louise and I flew to Boston last week to spend a few days with Elijah. We had a wonderful visit and […]
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A sunny day in October is truly something to relish. I’d been looking forward to Monday’s weather all weekend: This morning (MONDAY), though, it was cloudy and cold. Practically freezing. We’ve learned not to put too much credence in the forecast; opportunities for disappointment abound. I had some errands downtown and found myself […]
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