Wellness Clan

WellnessClan.com I originally met Alison Jones through a professional community theater group here in Maryland. With great joy, we watched as our young sons fearlessly took the stage in leading roles together in several performances. Over years, our families have...
Lasagna Love

Lasagna Love

LasagnaLove.org I am officially a Lasagna Mama! Just before Christmas, my friend Colleen read about an organization called Lasagna Love and passed along their website to me. My friendship with Colleen deserves its own blog but suffice it to say, she knows me and this...
World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen

www.WCK.org You may sense a theme here and you are not wrong! I shared more about my heritage in my lasagna post but you should also know that the FOOD = LOVE equation is strong in Casey’s family. My father-in-law immigrated from Portugal when he was nine and we had...

Nazareth Farm

www.NazarethFarm.org Take me home, country roads, to the place I belong… you know the rest. Down a holler in rural West Virginia, you’ll find Nazareth Farm. Founded in 1979, Nazareth Farm transforms lives through a two-fold mission: to provide home repair in our...

My Response to Lance Armstrong: Thank You, Dad

The era in which I have come of age has forced me to be a cynic when in comes to my “heroes” and the successful men that serve as an inspiration. Lance Armstrong, like many of them, is the most recent example of this precipitous fall from grace. With this...