I was struck this week by the intersection of two great stories; the first from Kari Lynn Dell (@Kidell), a wonderful writer whose descriptions of rodeo family life often brighten my day, and every now and then knock me clear off my chair with laughter. Like many of her readers I too have been to [...]
Every now and then one is totally surprised by another’s good deed. With the days growing shorter as summer wanes, it becomes especially easy to grow hyper critical of those charged most directly with helping those in need, especially with the daily news filled with various creative misdeeds of local government officials.
In 2003, perhaps [...]
I was thinking this week about a haunting snippet of a conversation that had ended ‘it’s always the little things that matter’. We know there are massive foundations working grandly to fulfill the promise of humanity and loads of both main stream and obscure charities working to solve intractable problems, but in true LostInTheFeed style, [...]
after 2600 miles across the US for MS
I remember my first real taste of freedom. It came on a bright summer Saturday afternoon, back when I measured time entirely by what was likely to happen in each of the next ten minutes. Everything after, and I do mean absolutely everything, just didn’t exist. I’d [...]
Theatre Inclusion Program aims to bring children and adults with disabilities into the program
I fell for it yesterday morning on the drive in. WBEZ’s morning news ended with a comment that the station had a new website – http://wbez20.com – and that it had a hysterical new video posted there. Sure enough, there was the new site – and true to form, the Peter Sagal video was a [...]