I’m No Superstar

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.

It’s Not Baloney

“My bologna has a first name . . .” Come on, you remember singing the song! And it probably still makes you smile to think of it. Several weeks ago I read this article in the Lancaster newspaper about a local who is now driving the Wienermobile. Taylor Hutchinson is quoted as saying the most

Walk In Love

A visit to a friend in a rehab hospital put Les and me near the mall last week. So he took me to Qdoba’s for a burrito. He was right—it was big and yummy. (Okay, yummy wasn’t his word. That’s my translation.) But what made me even happier was the chance to check out the

Imagining Myself a Woman of Faith

I remember my first Women of Faith (WOF) conference. My friend Annie and I (along with my daughter Joy and Ann’s almost-sister-in-law) drove from Delaware to Lancaster. There we picked up a bus and headed to Pittsburgh. It was 1997, the second year of WOF, but the first year in arenas. We heard the original

The Me Project (and a Contest)

Once again God has been sending me the same message over and over. He knows sometimes I am too dense (or preoccupied) to hear him the first time. Often I start with “Hmmm, that’s interesting,” but by the time I’ve heard the message the third or fourth time from diverse channels, I’m listening and saying,

Chazown! No, It’s Not a Batman Word

Zap! Zowwy! Bam! Whap! Pow! In our house, we call them Batman words. Nonsense onomatopoeia words like those that used to show up on the screen as Batman fought the bad guys. But chazown isn’t a Batman word, as odd as it sounds. It’s the English transliteration of a Hebrew word that means “vision.” And it’s

 

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