by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 5, 2015 | Giving Back
Hello hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of #3ThingsThursday, the first one of February! Ah, February. The month of ‘in-between’; we’re moving toward Spring, but not quite out of Winter. Christmas feels like a distant memory, but Summer too...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 4, 2015 | Giving Back, Motherhood
Upstairs, in bed, in the wee hours of this morning, my son was transformed. Under some sort of cosmic magic, the earth went ’round the sun one more time. And by the same magic, my son turned 5. The day he was born I said to my husband, “I now know why son...
by Taslim Jaffer | Dec 17, 2014 | Giving Back
I’ve told you before what I don’t like about charity. Knowing how I feel about handouts, you understand that hearing the phrase, ‘give to the less fortunate’ all holiday season long, irks me. There is so much packed into that expression that...
by Taslim Jaffer | Dec 12, 2014 | Giving Back
You know that feeling that’s best described as being like a kid in a candy store? That’s how I felt when Chimp, a charitable account system I talked about here, asked if they could give Let ME Out!! $160 to donate to any Canadian charity! Giving to a...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 29, 2014 | Giving Back
I’m about to tell you a story that somehow was thrust in my path nearly 20 years ago and has never left me. The details of how I came across this story are foggy but that isn’t what matters. What matters is that I know it was no accident that I came to...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 26, 2014 | Giving Back
Last week, I almost published a blog about a particular charity…but then I deleted it once I realized I was having way too many ‘weird’ feelings about the particulars involved with what the organization was seeking to do. (Beware of hidden agendas,...
