Tag: volunteer

Taking a Gap Year and Immigrant Parents

Posted on by Cynthia Cheng Mintz

Reading that Malia Obama is taking a year off before going to university, had me thinking about gap years.  I graduated from high school a long, long time ago.  In the last century.  When I graduated back in the late 90s, the internet was young (we had dial-up), people still watched movies on VHS and […]

The Holiday Season and the Spirit of Giving

Posted on by Cynthia Cheng Mintz

Every holiday season, I make my rounds of donations.  It isn’t a lot –  I don’t have that kind of money – but I feel that every little bit helps organizations that one supports.  Generally, these go to the usual suspects that people would give to – alma maters, hospitals and cultural-related organizations, and often […]