This is a tale of two zipcodes–and the relationship between how much we have and how much we give. Spindale & Arlington Spindale is a rural community in North Carolina speckled with mobile homes and blanketed in kudzu. Arlington, Virginia’s miles of exclusive neighborhoods, shopping centers, and office complexes neighbor… Read More
This won’t be an easy post to read. It’s even harder to write. Jeff and I walked from the church… through crowds of cute… beside and across streams flowing with more waste than water… through the narrow passages of the Katwe slum… to Sarah’s house. Last door on the right.… Read More
Dad’s can turn garbage into a soccer ball. Dirt into breakfast, lunch and dinner. And boys and girls into men and women. Richard is Colline’s uncle, but every bit her dad (I wrote yesterday about how she went from slave to daughter.) He wakes her early for chores because “this… Read More
Tom Corley, author of Rich Habits, spent four years interviewing rich and poor Americans, another 18 months analyzing the resulting data and eventually boiled his findings down to a list of lifestyle differences between the two groups. 1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day.… Read More
What do these men have in common? Antonio Bastardo Everth Cabrera Francisco Cervelli Nelson Cruz Fautino De Los Santos Sergio Escalona Fernando Martinez Jesus Montero Jordan Norberto Jhonny Peralta Cesar Puello Alex Rodriguez Jordany Valdespin All thirteen were suspended this week by Major League Baseball for using performance enhancing drugs.… Read More
If I close my eyes I can see her. After cutting the crust from his sandwich she snaps his lunchbox shut, slips it into his backpack and heads upstairs to wake him for school. She’s the nanny. But she’s more than that to the boy. Dad expresses love in sixty-hour… Read More
Shaun Groves