Transcending No with the Big R Game
Many people have a tremendous amount of baggage when it comes to one of the smallest words in the English language — no. It’s mostly a learned behavior. As I’ve watched my daughter growing up, the first few years she didn’t seem to have any problems with rejection. For example, while learning to walk, gravity…
The Saga of Amberlin – Chapter 10
Chapter 10 “So, Birdman’s where the fruit, Miss Good Two Shoes promised you?” Spooks asked as she dropped her tray on the table before dropping herself in the chair next to him. “It’s on the way…I’m sure of it,” Birdman replied once he recovered from the shock of her dramatic appearance. “Yea, I’ll believe it…
Chitra: Canine Crusader
Chitra: Canine Crusader Chitra didn’t plan to be a hero, but she is. In fact, she’s been a hero for over 1600 four-legged canine and feline friends. But, as often happens, Chitra’s heroism began with one small act of kindness over 25 years ago. It was shortly after arriving in the U. S. from her…
Connecting the Cosmos
Connecting the Cosmos While she was driving her ’36 Ford truck on a country road on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York, coming home from a sorority dance, a dense blizzard enshrouded the vehicle as it inched along route 11. White and her passenger, her friend Stu, could barely make out the dozens of cars…
Transforming the Golden Gheto
Transforming the Golden Gheto Out of her own suffering in a world of affluence, she found the creative vision to enlighten us all about the illness of “affluenza,” and to become a spiritual force for its healing. To the casual observer, Jessie O’Neill grew up in an idyllic setting. Her family lived in a spacious…
Born to Run With the Dogs
Born to Run With the Dogs The occasion, hosted by his wife, Carolyn, was held at the bottom of the world and on top of a mountain named for Vaughan by Admiral Bryd when the two men shared another expedition to the frozen wasteland of Antartica, some 65 years before. Vaughan has been itching to…
Fed Up With Hunger
Fed Up With Hunger Carol Porter was celebrating her daughter’s birthday party at a fast food restaurant in Houston when she happened to glance out the window. She describes a scene “straight from Dickens.” Children stood outside, staring in hungrily at the food-laden tables. So Carol invited them to join the party. The next day,…
When One Cries the Other Tastes Salt
When One Cries the Other Tastes Salt I’m sure it was some famous person who first talked about the high and low roads of life. The analogy has been with me for so long I forget where I first heard it but it came to me again when I learned that Bo and Sita Lozoff…
Little Souls With Big Hearts
Little Souls With Big Hearts But Little Souls’ dolls aren’t massed produced Ken and Barbies. Each doll has his or her own unique personality, including their new line; Ribbon Kids — dolls born on a January day in 1995 at a children’s dollmaking session at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. The children, many of…
The Orient Express
The Orient Express And each morning, Orient answered the call but it wasn’t as simple an invitation as one might think. Bill wasn’t asking Orient to guide him around the block in his quiet suburban neighborhood of Burlington, N.C. or even to walk with him to a nearby grocery store. No, when Bill Irwin goes…
Isn’t it Time You Knew Your Purpose?
