Earlier in the year, due to a series of events I don’t quite understand, I adopted a street dog while on vacation in Puerto Rico.
Author: Holly Tucker
Shellie Braeuner: What the Red Cross Means to Me
Starting with three shots a week, the treatment continued for more than ten years. It literally took thousands of blood donors to support this treatment. But it worked. Today, other than the occasional flu, Joe is a healthy father of four. And yes, he donates whole blood as often as he can.
Bethanne Patrick: What the Red Cross Means to Me
Before long, I qualified as WSI. All due to the American Red Cross!
Raima Larter: What the Red Cross Means to Me
I wanted to help so got in line,
Ellen F. Brown: What the Red Cross Means to Me
This guest post was contributed by the author to Writers for the Red Cross. Writers for the Red Cross is a month-long celebration that brings writers, readers, editors, literary agents and independent bookstores together to raise funds and awareness for the Red Cross during Red Cross Month.
Galyn Glick Martin: What the Red Cross Means to Me
What’s striking about the Red Cross is the organization’s ability to offer emotional support so soon after a disaster occurs.
Pamela Schoenewaldt: What the Red Cross Means to Me
My image of the Red Cross is very bound up in the summer I was nine and working steadily through the children’s biographies in the Westfield, New Jersey Public Library. I was partial to famous women and picked Clara Barton, along with Joan of Arc and Helen Keller.
Rebecca Rasmussen: What the Red Cross Means to Me
When students inevitably asked me about the bandage on my arm, I passed out articles about the myriad of ways average old blood like mine has saved other people’s lives during surgeries, transfusions, and life threatening diseases.
Stephanie Cowell: What the Red Cross Means to Me
The Red Cross is the feeling I can do something for those people who could have been me, who are, however remote, somehow my family.
Jay Varner: What the Red Cross Means to Me
A few months after I graduated college, my hometown paper hired me to cover the news.