I have a totally thrilling announcement:
Within 24 hours, all Elves will have the ability to author their own posts on this blog!
Sometime tomorrow each of you should receive a username, a password, and a URL. If you click on the URL, it will take you to where you can compose your post. [...]

I just love Elf Tuesdays!
In honor of the Holiday season, I sorted all the names this week with the help of a friendly Christmas Elf (being sure to first add our newest Elf, Fisyr, of course):

I closed my eyes, fished around a bit, and picked out…

Elf “One”!  Congratulations, One!  I will PayPal your money just [...]

First things first: I am SO excited to tell everyone that I received the absolute nicest, warmest, classiest, most heart-felt “thank you” ever from my first recipient, Mr. G.! (Giving Anonymously forwarded me his phoned-in message, and I was able to listen to it online.) He is truly as good a man as [...]

Giving money anonymously can be a tricky thing. In fact, before the internet it used to be darn near impossible:
1) Personal checks were out of the question for obvious reasons.
2) Credit cards were equally useless: Once I actually tried opening a credit card with a fake business name — I thought that [...]

First off: a big, huge, GIANT “thank you” to every single one of you. I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels to have so many beautiful comments from so many amazing people!
You all have inspired me to make this a true collaborative effort. I was already so jazzed about this whole idea, [...]