Dear Mr. President,
I write to you today with a heavy heart. We are approaching my favorite holiday of the year, yet thoughts of family, friends, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie are of little comfort this season in light of my inner turmoil.
Over the years, I have enjoyed watching the annual presidential pardon of a turkey [...]

I’ve been introduced to some interesting new online friends since joining the Radical read-along, and Amy is one of them. Recently Amy bought a super cute belt, felt convicted for spending $28 on something as trivial as fashion, and decided to sell it and give the money to blood:water mission, an organization that empowers communities to [...]

In my line of work, sleep is a very precious commodity. And so this morning, when a rooster’s crow jolted me awake TWO full hours before my alarm was set to go off, I was slightly annoyed. The slightly annoyed turned into very annoyed as his crows continued, as loud as if he were merely [...]

I consider it one of the great injustices in the world that my beautiful, fully loaded Honda Accord did not come equipped with an auxiliary jack for an iPod. As injustices go, it may not be up there with world hunger or the AIDS crisis, but it’s probably a close third. (OK, it’s a tad [...]