Reading Time: 2 minutes Schools may be closed due to COVID-19. But learning doesn’t have stop. Here are some activities to engage your children that require limited supplies (and often limited supervision). All you need is online access.
What Scares You?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m always reminded at the beginning of March about the day I decided to take a leap of faith. It initially had nothing to do with the start of Lent. But I now re-examine those lessons learned at the beginning of this season of reflection.
Why You Should Buy a Box of Girl Scout Cookies
Reading Time: 4 minutes The little library down the street, the busy bags in the hands of patients at the children’s hospital, the stuffed animals cuddled by children who have survived fires and other traumatic events, even the tiny garden outside a nursing home may have been created by Girl Scouts. These girls are always finding new ways to serve others. By buying just one box of Girl Scout cookies, you are helping these girls make a difference in your community.
Everyone Goes Home
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Rule Number 1- Everyone goes home.” Those are the first words police at Birmingham Police Department’s North Precinct see when they arrive for roll call at the start of every shift. But nearly one week ago, an officer sitting in the same room at the start of his overnight shift did not go home. End …
Spinning Tales of Family Lore
Reading Time: 3 minutes Beneath the dirt and grim of streets patrolled by gun-toting, smooth talking gangsters, laid the Corrupt City’s true underbelly. It’s a world that came alive with rumrunners, bootleggers and speakeasies. This secret world, not for the faint of heart, attracted some of Chicago’s newest residents- recent immigrants seeking a world of opportunity. Among them was …