We’re in Atlanta for the winter volunteering at the Open Door Community, an outreach to the homeless in the area. Recently our family was helping serve at a meal here for the people on the streets. One Hispanic … Continue reading
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Ok, time to call a spade a spade… During our prayer time this morning, I was reading the kids some writings of Dorothy Day (co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement). At one point, she wrote that people in … Continue reading
We’re currently volunteering at the Open Door Community in Atlanta, while looking at urban poverty issues. The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless that includes some beds, meals, showers… The Open Door also has a health clinic … Continue reading
The Oct. 23 edition of Science Magazine noted that Germany is experimenting with a new type of traffic light system. Sensors are placed in approaches to traffic lights (from both sides). The light then responds, not automatically like … Continue reading
Last night as we were leaving Mosquito Lake Park, a man approached and complimented us on our new (yet tremendously “vintage”) 1978 Dodge Beaver Motor Home. (We got it in Colorado several months ago and it only had 79,000 … Continue reading
We stopped at the Youngstown, Ohio, YMCA where (Are you ready for this?) there is actually a chapel in the middle of the complex. (The first chapel in a YMCA that we’ve seen anywhere in the country.) What’s … Continue reading
Over the weekend, I talked to a counselor who works at a local mental health agency here in Cleveland. I said to him that I’d recently read that some 21,000 people had been killed in Mexico in the Drug … Continue reading
Rte 90 Run-N-Gun Tour cont… We continued on Rte. 90, stopping in the Wisconsin cities of La Crosse, Madison, Straughton and Beloit. In Madison, I passed out some campaign literature to a man-on-the-street who said he wanted a … Continue reading
Rte. 90 Run-N-Gun Tour speeds on… In Worthington, Minnesota, we parked our camper/campaign vehicle in a Wal-Mart parking lot, right next to an auto racing dirt track. Talk about loud … The next day at Mass, we … Continue reading
Our Roaming Wyoming Tour took us to Laramie over the weekend. While there, I met Douglas Wolford who is from Big Springs, Nebraska, and was on his way home from a vacation with his wife at Yellowstone Park. … Continue reading