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  It was cool enough for two shirts today but not a jacket.  One of those middle of the road days that you can’t help pretending is just a fine one.  It was cool and bright but overcast most of

Folks, please… stop sharing fake grotesque pictures of children on social sites. Put simply, no one is ever going to donate anything anywhere every time you share an image on a social site.  Not three cents.  Not three dollars,  nothing.

  Imagine you’re a teen boy.  Imagine that there’s this cute girl in math class that invites you over to her house.  When you arrive you’re taken out back to meet her family.  They’re cheerful folk and happy to welcome

This is my Uncle and First Cousin.   The video is one that they made for their Church.  She has a very cool story that… well, have a listen, I’ll let her tell you. Amazing Faith   Read http://kodysmom.blogspot.com/ for more

In my post “Christmas in Poverty”. I said that we would eat for our Christmas meal those things that we had donated to the local Community Outreach program or CRO.  We did this not to glorify ourselves but to prove

**With nods to my friend Greybeard… if you shed an easy tear… well, fair warning.** One of the secrets that I mentioned earlier has come to pass. Remember last year I talked about Ms Samantha and her potential illness?  Remember

This post was written by Mrs Jinksto and me as an email to some friends who are facing tough times.  I’ve asked them if I could share it here because I thought it was a neat bit of writing that

Some of my best Christmas memories come from being a child.  A child in a very poor family.  I’ve been there.  I’ve eaten meals provided by others in bags surreptitiously left on a porch when no one was home. I

… it was the worst of times.*  Charles Dickens finishes that thought with a long paragraph that continues the theme but those two more famous lines from the opening paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities really describe what this

  I knelt beside a tiny brook in Uwharrie National Forest this morning and watched it slowly, slowly push past the rocks.  The stream is nearly dry but continues to trickle along day after day.  Small crawfish [ref]Or more properly