According to the UN World Food Programme and UNICEF, almost 18,000 children die every day from hunger. For the third year, Pathway Community Church opened its doors to Feed My Starving Children, an organization that harnesses the power of community to, well, feed starving children. Members of LifeBridge, Pathway, and a number of community groups volunteered in 2-hour shifts beginning on Thursday, and together, packed 404,568 meals this weekend. That will feed 1,108 kids for a year. If you do the math, you’ll find that statistic is based on one meal a day.   One meal a day. One. Even though […]

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I visited New York with my brother recently. Buried with work stress, I told him, “You’re in charge.  I need a break from decisions and timelines; I will just follow you.” We even agreed on a trip theme:  Meander.  We had no real schedule, no commitments.  Eat when we get hungry.  Stop when we are tired.  Watch people. How did that go?  Not so well. For three days, my brother set the pace, soaked in the city, and waited patiently for me to discover I was half a block ahead of him.  For three days, each time the gap between […]

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I hope everyone will indulge me for today……I have to brag on my precious friends in our small group.  This weekend, we put on a fundraiser for Bill and Sara.  Totally done, idea-to-event, in under three weeks. Now, when I say “we,” I mean the collective we of our small group….I can’t take credit for much of anything, because, well, I didn’t really do much. In contrast, Tess O’Day is my new heroine.  Not that she wasn’t before, but over the past couple of weeks, I’ve remembered that impossible is simply not in this girl’s vocabulary.  She rises to a challenge.  She […]

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I recently came across a very brief post from Seth Godin that crystallized the past month of my life:  You can’t watch your parade if the house is on fire. These days, I do feel like the house is on fire. I am an introvert.  I need quiet time away from people and activity to recharge.  When my batteries get low, I fall into bad habits.  I see problems as overwhelming and impossible to solve.  I see myself as impotent, powerless.  I retreat.  I miss the parade. I need to contain the fire in a controlled space, and then just […]

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It’s been said that the fire extinguisher should be the only uni-tasker in your kitchen. I saw a “watermelon knife” on a morning TV segment the other day.  It purportedly removes the seeds from the watermelon as it cuts.  For $25.  The way the knife is designed, there is no other thing this knife could possibly do besides cut watermelon.  Poorly, if i were to guess. This watermelon knife symbolizes consumerism gone awry.  Of the need to buy more and more and more.  To measure your life based on the “stuff” you own. Just turn on an episode of “Mission: […]

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