by Guest Author | Mar 18, 2009 | for Good
The Honorable Tom Harkin731 Hart Senate Office BuildingPhone (202) 224-3254Washington DC , 20510 Dear Senator Harkin, As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of...
by Guest Author | Feb 19, 2009 | for Good
By Serena Davidson There's a chore wheel hanging in my kitchen. It has bossed us and blessed us for almost twenty years now. The words say Laundry, Kitchen, Living Room, Bathrooms, and Free Day. On Free Day, a person doesn't have to do an assigned chore. It's my Free...
by Guest Author | Feb 17, 2009 | for Good
Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 25, 2009 | for Good, Uncategorized
Most of you know that I have red hair. Bright red, but not quite clown-like, and now a bit more white than I'd care to admit. In spite of my dear parents' best efforts, I grew up hating my hair because everyone else seemed to hate it, too. But I couldn't figure out...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 19, 2009 | for Good
People are flawed and so I'm not much for hero worship. When even Christmas is watered down to be more about buying out the Walmart toy aisle than it is about Christ, it seems to smack of political correctness to choose Martin Luther King, Jr., as the only human on...
by Guest Author | Jan 6, 2009 | for Good
Scenario:Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1958: Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2008: School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack...
