All Faiths feedback … finally!
WOW! WOW! WOW! Um, that’s kind of — almost — all I can say. MC Reality Online readers dug deep, counted coin, wrote checks, and typed in credit card numbers to the tune of … $1,943 in collective donations to All Faiths Food Bank to help feed the hungry in our community.
An All Faiths update
All Faiths let me know that they won’t have the final tallies on donations until possibly just before New Year’s. Sorry! I’m going to wait until then to do the drawing and finalize that column. It’s a good thing, though, because they said they’re so busy, they just haven’t caught up with all the donations […]
All Faiths update
Hey, anyone who might be looking for news about the results of the MC Reality Reader/All Faiths Food Bank fundraising drive — sorry! All Faiths didn’t have a chance to get the numbers to me yesterday, so unfortunately, I can’t give you an update. I’m going to hold off on the drawing until I get […]
All Faiths drive ends tomorrow! Still time to donate …
Hey, just a reminder that the MC Reality Reader/All Faiths Food Bank fundraising drive ends tomorrow — Thursday, December 18th at 5 p.m.! If you’d like to donate, there’s still time — just go to the All Faiths website and make a donation online (and be sure to enter “MC Reality Drive” in the special […]
MC on the radio tomorrow chatting up the All Faiths/Reality Reader fundraising drive
Emily Berno, one of the hosts of the popular local radio program — Truly Sustainable Sarasota — which airs Thursday mornings from 9 to 10 am, heard about the All Faiths/Reality Readers fundraising drive and has invited me on air tomorrow to chat the drive up and hopefully encourage listeners to chip in with their […]
Wake up, MC, there really is a Santa Claus!
After yesterday’s blog posting, It’s About Love, a reader wrote to me and encouraged me to find some way to do my annual fundraising drive for All Faiths Food Bank despite the fact that I don’t have an in-print column. The thought hadn’t occurred to me, really, and I’m really thankful (in the spirit of […]
Sarasota’s All-America City Quest
This column appeared in the Pelican Press newspaper, June 29, 2006. Sarasota County was recently designated an “All-America County.” County Commission Chairman David Mills, quoted on the County’s website, predicted this recognition would have “long-lasting effect on the Sarasota community.” And County Administrator Jim Ley, quoted in a June 8 Sarasota Herald-Tribune article by Doug […]
Regifting good
Kindness is the one gift that should always be regifted. It’s a gift no one would ever be offended to receive knowing it had first belonged to someone else. And it’s a gift that once made, the giver would undoubtedly only be pleased if you passed it along to someone else. I gave a talk […]
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M.C. Coolidge is an award-winning freelance writer, newspaper columnist/opinion journalist, and blogger, living in Sarasota, Florida. Her weekly newspaper column, Sense and the City, appeared each Thursday in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune from 2010 to 2012, and her opinion essays have appeared in the Op/Ed pages of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, and […]
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M.C. Coolidge is a freelance writer, editor, and public relations consultant based in Sarasota, Florida, with clients in her hometown and beyond — including New York, Phoenix, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Palm Beach. Her weekly newspaper column, Sense and the City, appeared each Thursday in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune from 2011 to mid-2012, and her opinion […]