Kindness of Strangers Extends Beyond the Clouds

Toddler Receives a Free Flight to Doctor on the Wings of Strangers

Caleb Nord, not even two years old, has a very rare disease (FHL-V) and there are only 5 doctors in the world who know how to treat this rare disorder that attacks Caleb’s white blood cells.

Caleb, along with his mother Ann Nord, needed to get to a specialist from White Bear, MN to Cincinnati, Ohio, but Caleb couldn’t fly regular airlines since his immune system wasn’t strong enough. With just a couple conversations with people in his hometown, a carwash fundraiser for Caleb and an ad in the local newspaper, Caleb and his mother received the ride they needed to Cincinnati.

How much would you help a little boy who is struggling to survive to meet his medical needs?

Read Caleb’s story on CaringBridge.com, a non-profit site that offers families a place to keep a journal for friends and family about their children’s health problems.

Sign Caleb Nord’s guestbook and leave him a message too.

God Bless Caleb we greatly admire your strong spirit and determination to fight this rare disorder!

Caleb is undergoing chemotherapy and being treated with steroids and antibiotics. He needs a bone marrow transplant. Only five physicians in the world specialize in the disorder. One of those is Dr. Alexandra Filipovich of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Doctors at St. Paul Children’s Hospital want Caleb and his parents, Jeremy and Ann Nord, to see Filipovich, who sent an e-mail to his friend Bill King, vice president of business administration for Cirrus. A few more e-mails and phone calls, and it was arranged: Instead of going Delta, the Nords will take a Cirrus plane flown by a commercially licensed Cirrus pilot from St. Paul to Cincinnati on Tuesday, returning either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on how long they need to be in the hospital. King’s call caught her by surprise, Ann Nord said. “I had no idea that anyone had contacted him,” she said. “I get this call and the kids are screaming and running around, and I ended up calling him back. He told me everything, and I just cried.” King said everyone at Cirrus from the top down wanted to help. ” Gary Doty noted how everything came together: a visit to Duluth, an ad in the paper, a casual conversation at a carwash, a couple of people connecting with a couple of other people.

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Maintaining a Blog is Just Like Owning a Home – Always Work to Do

I don’t own a home and don’t have any intention of buying one soon, but I hear from homeowners all the time about the aches and pains (the real physical types) of keeping up a home: repairing pipes, leaks and electrical issues, patching a roof, replacing a driveway and even updating their landscaping every year or two. Whew! That is A LOT of work just to maintain a home.

I feel the same way about keeping a blog or even my social networks for that matter.

Now that I’ve switched to having a hosted blog, I understand the work needed to keep it updated.  I feel like a small business owner in a metropolitan shopping area – if you aren’t open when the other businesses are or don’t promote your sales, then you’re going to lose business.

So bear with me as I am revamping (repairing) categories, experimenting with affiliates and adsense, so I can evetually earn some money from the various topics I write about. I haven’t quite found my niche here; however, I’m working on topics on  greener living as well as just observations and general rambings about life, love and the pursuit of simplicity.

And if anyone has great experience working with affiliates and adsense or can even offer a link to a resource or a website with good ad placement, I would appreciate your help.

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We’ve Gone Social!

Thanks to our many followers, readers and commenters, the FreespiritWriter blog has upgraded and has included many social bookmarking buttons, features and plug-ins, which will make all the blog posts easier to find.

Come back often for new posts and new changes over the coming weeks. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve this blog, please leave your comments here as well!

Also, note that all future green blog posts will now be on a new blog: GreenerLivingInfo.WordPress.com, and it will soon be moved to GreenerLivingBlog.com (or .info) to gain better search engine visibility in the future.

Got a question about living a greener life? Simplicity? Or just an idea for a blog post that you would like to see here? Please leave your ideas in the Comments section with a valid email address (so we can contact you) and we’ll try our best to get it online.

Happy 4th of July, have fun, play safe, and enjoy the natural outdoors!

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FreespiritWriter is Upgrading

We’re going mainstream all the way. Please be patient as we go through the process of transferring all of our great blogs on greener living, spirituality and life’s observations as we transfer and upgrade to an even better way of getting more readership and visibility among the search engines.

Thank you to all the loyal subscribers and readers…it is because of you all that we’re able to up our ante and become a fully functionable and hosted blog site.

I’m separating out the Greener/Green Living blogs to a new domain…one rich and plentiful of tips and experiences and news about living a green life, while everything else will remain on this domain. Greener living blogs will now have a link to their new home until they are indexed by the search engines.

I look forward to seeing your comments on all our blogs!

Thank you from the writers at FreespiritWriter.com

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