Look around the office or down the hall and find someone that needs encouragement or a pick me up for the day. Send them an email card and let them know someone cares. My favorite trick is to send one and just sign it �Someone who cares.� They spend the day trying to find out who it is and find out a lot of people really care about them. All cards are free. If you see someone without a smile send them a free ecard and cheer them up. Free thinking of you, thank you, encouragement, bad day, birthday and more. http://www.ecards4free.com <a href="http://www.ecards4free.com">Free All Occasion Email Greeting Cards.</a> Look around the office or down the hall and find someone that needs encouragement or a pick me up for the day. Send them an email card and let them know someone cares. My favorite trick is to send one and just sign it �Someone who cares.� They spend the day trying to find out who it is and find out a lot of people really care about them. All cards are free. If you see someone without a smile send them a free ecard and cheer them up. Free thinking of you, thank you, encouragement, bad day, birthday and more. There will be some days around May 15th that there will be no newsletter. I am having my total knee replacement replaced. I fell a while back and caused damage to my knee and loosened the total knee replacement and have to get it replaced again. I will have surgery on May 15th. I already have the newsletters done for several days around that date and will send them out from my hospital room when I am awake enough to find the keys on my laptop. Listbot (the way I send out these newsletters) has not been sending them out in a timely manner. I am sorry if this is an inconvenience to anyone. I have no control over the situation. 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