American Field Service (A.F.S.), United Way, Northeast Ohio SPCA Animal Shelter, Confucius Institute.

Travel, Baking, Art, Swimming, Biking, Hiking, Reading, Movies

Freakonomics, The Reader, Walk Two Moons, The Great Gatsby, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Half the Sky, When I Was Elena, Things Fall Apart, Kite Runner, The Poisionwood Bible, The Help.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress depends on unreasonable people.
-George Benard Shaw
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-Derek Bok

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are remembered.
-Eugene P Bortin