I’m No Superstar is a blog for people like me who want to make a difference in the world but know they aren’t activists. Each post contains a social action idea that most of us could do, a book that’s worth reading, or a link to a website that offers other ideas. Oh, and it’s all introduced by a sometimes quirky story from my life.
You don’t have to know me long to know that I love Panera Bread. I have to drive 25 to 30 minutes to reach a Panera, and yet I am there at least once a week, alternating between Lancaster and Reading, depending on my other appointments. So I was happy to know my faith in
On Labor Day we spent hours watching Guy eat at Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. And we managed to eat plenty while we watched, even if it wasn’t the mouth-watering pastrami he was sampling. During one of the shows, Guy mentioned the Food Network campaign, Go Orange for No Kid Hungry, which supports Share Our Strength.
I live in bucolic Lancaster County. I watch Amish buggies clopping by from my home office window. You can’t drive a mile without encountering a vegetable stand. And many of my neighbors lack food. The Lancaster paper published a series of articles this week on the suburban poor. The number of residents getting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
“Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by . . .” That old song talks about the circle of family and wanting to keep it together. But there’s another circle needs to be broken, that of food insecurity that leads to limited food choices that leads to poor health that exacerbates
Several years ago our friends Lynda and Tom added Daniel to their family. Mira, their miracle baby, had kept Lynda on total bed rest for most of her pregnancy. And so Daniel arrived from Ethiopia and transformed their family. Now they are living in Ethiopia, teaching and loving and living life as God has called
Isaiah 58 talks about the true fast that God desires: Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When
In the past week Les and I have used a couple of great food deals we got through restaurant.com ($25 certificate we paid $2 for) and travelzoo (an $88 dinner for two in Center City Philly for $39). Because we bought the certificates several months ago, they felt like free meals (except for tip). The
I was sitting at the table the other morning, bemoaning the fact that I had eaten too much the night before and the bathroom scale had reflected it. It wasn’t stopping me from eating breakfast, though. (Not much does; “most important meal of the day,” and all that.) I turned the page of the newspaper
Kevin and Kenny were master dumpster divers. They would regale us with stories of the computers and appliances they found, things that needed only minor adjustment to work well. They found cases of sneakers and wearable clothing. They provided me with a new floor chair mat that kept my desk chair rolling years. But if
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