Red Balloons, Wooden Canoes, and Film Nostalgia
Some of you aren’t old enough to remember the days before VHS tapes. Back then, when we watched movies in school they were on film. With clunky projectors. And if you were watching a film with multiple reels, there was always that cool click…click…flapflapflapflapflap when the first reel ended but kept spinning while the film […]
Give Herman One Dollar
Hey, Relevant readers. I want to let you in on an experiment in small acts of kindness, teensy sacrifices, and the potentially big power of viral web-based fun. Some friends of an online friend of mine in Delaware have the crazy habit of taking a homeless person out to lunch every Wednesday. One of these […]
Daniel’s Story, Part 2
Here’s Part 2 of Daniel’s story, which began yesterday in this post. Daniel is a teenage performer with Spirit of Uganda, a group of musicians and dancers (most of whom are orphans) who are touring the U.S. right now as the public face of Empower African Children.
Read Part 1 of Daniel’s story.
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When he turned five, […]
Meet Daniel, an AIDS Orphan
In addition to writing books and magazine articles, I also do a lot of freelance copywriting — which is a vague term describing any writing-for-hire performed for companies or organizations. It can include everything from radio or television ads to editorial features to corporate communications stuff like email or blog posts or news releases.
One organization […]
The Candidates on Faith
This political season, the three remaining candidates for the presidency all have pretty solid Christian credentials — and are probably more outspokenly Christian than most candidates have ever been — but watchdogs of the religious right don’t like any of them. Why? Apparently, they’re not Christian enough. Or conservative enough. (Or maybe, in their minds, […]
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