Growing up, my home was always open to visiting friends and families. My mom’s love to share with anyone who ‘stopped by for a visit’ kept our front door revolving. As kids, we were sometimes embarrassed by who might be sitting at our kitchen table with a piece of fresh baked banana bread and a [...]

I’ve been a bit distracted from my blog as I enter the world of Twitter.  Tweeting sounds like it might be simple but there is a definite strategy to it.  I’ve been reading Joel Comm‘s book  Twitter Power. It has been really helpful.  I recommend it! I was pretty excited about learning how to customize [...]

A friend of mine, who had been reading my blog, sent me some links on ‘rural homelessness’.  To be honest, I had not thought about the homeless in our rural areas.  I don’t know why I thought the homeless only lived on the streets in cities, but as I am discovering, there is a lot [...]

The headlines in my local paper this morning read “A poor measure of poverty”.  It was basically saying that the government has not reported accurately the numbers of people affected by poverty. The two facts that I feel are pertinent to this site was that ‘homelessness has increased by 50%” and “38 million people are [...]