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How important is an educational degree in the hiring process?

June 27, 2008 By Administrator

Let me introduce Eva Rosenberg, Tax Mama. I’ve known Eva more than a few years, and she’s a spectacular individual. Brilliant. Sassy. Savvy. Effervescent. And then some. Today she wrote about the focus we put on hiring people with degrees, and I thought it would be interesting. And now: here’s Eva.

This morning I was corresponding with a tax professional who’s faced some resistance by the folks at Robert Half because he doesn’t have a college degree. No doubt Half must adhere to THE highest standards in the land. (They are a pretty good firm, in general.) But when you come across a candidate like this individual – with over a decade of solid tax experience, a great attitude, and a capacity for finding errors that might save a firm from lawsuits or sanctions…headhunters need to have the sense to make an exception.

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Kentucky House of Representatives honors Alex Harpole and Service Dog, Lady

March 14, 2008 By Administrator

Kentucky House of Representatives honors Alex Harpole and Service Dog, Lady, on March 5, 2008. Special recognition was given to Alex and Lady because Alex was selected by the National Epilepsy Foundation to represent Kentucky in a face-to-face meeting with lawmakers in Washington D.C., to discuss desperately needed help for children with disabilities.

Alex, who has an extremely rare form of epilepsy called Dravet’s Syndrome, and his mother, Carrie, will share their first-hand knowledge of what support is lacking and what is needed.

Click here to see Lady’s certificate, and click here to see Alex’s certificate.

Note from Judy: 4 Paws for Ability is an amazing nonprofit organization located in Xenia, Ohio. It provides highly trained service dogs in many areas, but does require that approved families raise funds to train the dog. Please consider this child whose life will change significantly upon receiving an assistance dog. Read the testimonials. Reading them could change your life. It changed mine.

Getting Lives in Order by Eva Rosenberg

July 3, 2007 By Administrator

An adventure in stereotyping


One summer, I took a biology class that was only supposed to meet every other night, so I could take volleyball on the alternate nights.

Naturally, it turned out to be a pre-med biology class, requiring a lab session every other night.

In that small class of about 25 students, there were two people I particularly thought were odd or annoying and hoped to avoid. He was loud, and pushy and seemed to know everyone and had to speak up about everything even though he was clearly a dumb jock. And she wore a striped engineer’s hat with engineer’s overalls every day – and just seemed to live in another dimension.

Naturally, when it came time to team up with lab partners, I ended up with them…

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Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center

June 27, 2007 By Administrator

Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center provides therapeutic horseback riding to children and adults with disabilities who live in the Puget Sound area. Classes take place in an environment that emphasizes abilities rather than disabilities.

I heard about this wonderful organization from my daughter-in-law, who is deeply involved in supporting the needs of children with disabilities. She is a role model for me, and one of the world’s finest women.

I used to love horseback riding, thanks to my mother’s encouragement. Now my daughter has a couple of horses and family and friends enjoy riding them. I know what a bond a person can have with a horse. Mine was with a horse named Dixie.

It’s exciting to see organizations like Little Bit helping people in the Pacific Northwest. This is how the Little Bit website describes some of the benefits for children with disabilities:

The horse’s soothing rhythm, strength, warmth, and three-dimensional movement pattern provides healthy exercise while improving circulation and muscle tone. The discipline associated with working with horses and the social interactions between peers benefit the mind and spirit while raising self-esteem and increasing self-sufficiency through accomplishment. The unconditional love of the horses is proved to reduce anxiety, encourage interaction and offer a haven where riders can feel a sense of empowerment.

Take a moment to visit the site. See the warmth, the vitality, the kindness displayed by staff and children. Kudos to Little Bit!

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