This lensmaster puts all your cheesy motivational posters to shame. You want real inspiration? Ask Amanda why she's walking 60 miles to stop breast cancer this September.
"On Day Two [last year] we passed a little old man sitting all alone in a lawn chair in his front yard right by the sidewalk. A sign [...]

Can you imagine jumping on a plane and heading off to one of the most dangerous places in the world? To the Congo, Darfur, or Indonesia?
Neither can we.
But that's exactly what staff and volunteers for our newest nonprofit partner, the International Rescue Committee, do every day. They attend to millions of people whose lives [...]

Have you seen all the tribute lenses on Squidoo lately?
People are making lenses to honor best friends, grandparents, beloved pets, siblings battling a disease... They're even using lenses as online memorials for loved ones who've passed.
In today's lens of the day, blondeheroine pays homage to the late "Muppets" creator Jim Henson, who [...]

Internet research. How hard can it be? There's a big thing out there called GOOGLE, right?
Well, not always. Recently, I spent an hour online, desperately trying to find a cheap but magnificent map of Italy's Chianti vineyards. In this age of oenophile-mania, I figured it would be a snap. But no. In the end I [...]

I love a lens that doesn't rest on its laurels.
In the truly spectacular "Are You Polar Bear Aware?" Frankster pays homage to the adorable if vicious polar bear. And man are we talking comprehensive. Just imagine something polar-bear-related, and it's probably in here.
So give the bear some love! It just might be the perfect Earth [...]

You know how it goes... you stumble across a lens here, a lens there, and you start noticing that they're all by the same person. You think to yourself, wow, that person is really on the ball.
Then you're on some other cool site, like CafePress or Blurb or Facebook, and you see a page... and [...]

A few months ago, we came across an extraordinary little nonprofit with a great big heart. And now we're so excited to introduce you to the Modest Needs Foundation.
Modest Needs aims to stop the cycle of poverty before it begins, one person at a time. How? By covering the kinds of unexpected emergency payments [...]

I thought I was a maple-syrup devotee. I've seen demonstrations. I live in maple-sugaring country. I've been saddened by how warmer winters are reducing the amount of sap. I haven't had the fake stuff in my cupboard for years.
But my fondness for all things maple pales in comparison to njg's!
Maple-sugar exfoliator, spa treatments, [...]