Volunteer Vacations: Contentment and Gratefulness from Giving Back

Volunteer Vacations: Contentment and Gratefulness from Giving Back

Two gifts that seem to flow naturally from giving back to others are contentment and gratefulness. Just ask Katie Ohotto, who has “given back” six times via short-term (one-, two- and three-week) service programs through Global Volunteers. “Volunteering centers me in both my personal and professional lives,” says Katie, who is a certified yoga instructor…

SF: Special event with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jane Wales

SF: Special event with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Jane Wales

Born in Somalia, raised Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape a forced marriage to an elderly cousin in Canada she had never met. She learned Dutch, earned her college degree in political science, and worked for the Dutch Labor party, serving as a parliamentarian. She denounced Islam after the…

San Francisco: GirlFriends Invited to Screening of “Sex & the City 2”

San Francisco: GirlFriends Invited to Screening of “Sex & the City 2”

Swag, glitter, yummy bites, good drinks, fun and of course the movie “Sex in the City 2.” Meet up with other cool women and bring your friends for a ladies night out! GirlFriendCircles.com Invites you! introducing women. inspiring friendship. GirlFriend Tickets: $35 Includes: A guaranteed seat for the advance screening, a red carpet photo shoot,…

Polynesian Navigation @ the S.F. Exploratorium After Dark- May 6th

Polynesian Navigation @ the S.F. Exploratorium After Dark- May 6th

Celebrate Never Lost, Polynesian navigation, enjoy Hawaiian music and hands-on interactive science. Go solo or with a gang of friends – easy to meet people as there is always interactive aspects. First Thursday of the month – May 6th, 2010 During the evening, expert ocean navigator Kalepa Baybayan will share some of the astounding non-instrument…

Canada: Summer expeditions with well-known Explorers

Canada: Summer expeditions with well-known Explorers

What better incentive to have fun outdoors on a challenging hike, an arduous mountaineering ascent or the conquest of the hair-raising via ferrata route, than to be alongside great living explorers who have conquered the outer limits of space and the depths of the deep sea. Canadian Mountain Holidays offers: July 24 – 27, 2010…