Jenn, I was really moved by this account and realized that in that category of fixed income, I too could make the smallest of donations and still have it count. As processing a credit card payment would cost significantly, I think I will set up the RFC in my bank account where I usually pay my bills (for free) and then each month when I'm billing my bills, I'll be reminded and send the small amount that I think I can send that month.

As you know, I also am a person of Robbie's generation whose life was utterly altered when I was a child by my father being witchhunted out of his job first for the State Department and then for the Arab Delegation to the UN, and then blackmarked for the rest of his life. I donated to RFC when it first started and then one of the first things I did when I moved to Easthampton in 2006 was to offer to volunteer for the RFC. The volunteering didn't last long; the staff decided there was not much I could do to help. And I have not donated often enough to the RFC either as especially since retirement I am on a very fixed income.

So thank you for your email and the blog and I look forward to sending regular small checks