Abel Delgado is changing lives by putting instruments in the hands of some of L.A.’s poorest kids For much of his childhood Abel Delgado felt like a nobody. Growing up poor-the son of Mexican immigrants-on the outskirts of an affluent Houston neighborhood, Delgado couldn’t afford the Tommy Hilfiger polo shirts that would help him fit [...]
They’ll interview you, take your pictures, and craft your story into a lovely memoir–by you Jutta van der Kuijp had been asking her 82-year-old father, Jan, to write his life story for years. She’d always found it fascinating. Born in what is today Jakarta, he’d spent most of the Second World War in POW camps [...]
By E T Waldron This piece was written Many years ago while I was near death from an illness, reposted for those who suffer chronic pain! Afflicted Oh dark and dreary land let me goI yearn for the sun but it avoids me why is pain equated with dark when it feels so hot, like [...]
Lee Adams, born in Mansfield, Ohio, received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in 1949 and a master’s from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1950. For ten years he labored as an all-purpose popular writer, providing material for magazines, revues, and comedy acts. His long collaboration with the composer Charles Strouse, beginning in [...]
By Vicky Bowker Jeter Reflecting on all that I learned from this Grace-filled moment in my life, probably the bit of greatest transformational benefit is coming to actively realize that, in my experience at least, Angels have access to directly assisting us proportional to our sincere inclination and/or investment in believing that they can. At [...]
By J Robert Whittle A story about my early life in Yorkshire, England. I was 11 when first introduced to the puppy we named Sandy. Over the years we became great friends building up a close relationship. He was of no particular breeding though some said he was a mixture of collie and corgi, but [...]
The Battle of Blouberg bicentenary this year reminds us that Britain took the Cape from the Dutch in 1806 to make the sea route to India safe, just as the Dutch had occupied it 150 years before in the interest of their East Indian possessions. Human connexions between India and the Cape were always present [...]