For Goodness’ Sakes

Celebrating 50th on the 50 and promoting organ donor awareness

There are many ways to describe fifty-year-old Doobie Kurus. Pre-school teacher. Husband and father of three girls. Athlete and former Gopher football player. A chef who has raised over $250,000 for local charities. And a selfless kidney donor. It’s the last of this list, kidney donor, that has heightened his appreciation for the former. Humble…

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Where there are Helpers, There is Hope

Where there are Helpers

How lucky is this? The National Kidney Foundation MN Blog has asked me to interview amazing people and write their stories. And this story? It’s incredibly heart warming. Especially now, when we are all ready to chuck 2020—the connection between Taylor Pikkarainen and sweet Bodie Hall is an uplifting reminder that good things happen in…

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Just To-Do It!

Just To-Do It

Oh, clutter, clutter, clutter. It’s a bully that intimidates us every day. Too much stuff. We know this. That’s why Marie Kondo, author of The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up is a best-selling, millionaire guru. But there’s another kind of clutter that weighs us down, and it’s not in our homes. It’s in our…

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