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Third World Saving Project Success

  I’m at the airport right now, waiting for a plane to whisk me away into a New Year. But before we roll over into 2013, I wanted to share with you the encouraging results of the Third World Saving Project that I did with the help of The Integral Heart Foundation who ran logistics…

Blessing The Rains In Africa: The Power of Dreams

When I was in high school, my parent’s adopted two Kenyan orphans, Calvin and Joash. After their parents passed away from AIDS, three brothers, Roger, Calvin and Joash, were left alone in their mud hut. Calvin, after reading a novel titled The Color of the Carnations about a Kenyan boy who studies in the USA, began to hope and…

The Stories Behind The Guitars

They say that dogs experience a much different world from people because of their heightened sense of smell. When they walk into a room, their nose tells them things like, “Oh, yep, Marve was definitely here a few hours ago, and he was definitely eating a ham sandwich. Boy, could I go for a ham…

Not In Vain

I was not going to write about this. An hour after I heard about the tragedies in CT, I called me ten year old brother Isaac. All I could think as he told me about school and the sports he’s in was that a few hours East of me so many people had lost the…

Avoiding The Worst Travel Mistake You Can Make

I almost did something totally cray-cray. I almost went home for Christmas from NYC to Bismarck via a 44 hour bus saga. What the bag of poorly trained chimpanzees was I thinking? I thought it would be nice, taking the scenic route, watching as the temperate East unfolded into the snow speckled woods slowly transforming…

Sandy’s Mercy

  Sandy’s Mercy   The trains left us to our own devices, which sparked shortages of PBR and stress in Brooklyn bars.   The storm turned a shivering shoulder to the hipster hangs (whose tenants brushed off such allegations) where poetry and paintings were being carved from afternoons of the weeklong holiday Sandy ushered in…

Is McAfee Guilty?

Photo Credit Vice.com Guatemala is denying Anti-virus software guru John McAfee’s request for asylum in and soon he’ll be deported back to Belize, from where he illegally entered Guatemala. Belize is the last place John McAfee wants to be. The authorities aren’t likely to do him any favors since for the last two weeks he’s been…