Tag: Poor

Many years ago, a friend won the free use of a boat for a day. She invited my family and her sister, a very poor single mom, to cruise the Illinois River with her. None of us was remotely used to such luxury. It was awesome. The sister, who took a day off from her grueling work as a nursing home ...

Most people spend their life spending most of the money they make. Whether you make $15,000 a month or $1,500, you’ll find yourself in a precarious situation as soon as the money stops coming in every month if you’ve been living paycheck to paycheck. That’s how NFL stars go broke a...

Poor leaders are a death sentence. They alienate quality team-members. They disrupt workflow. They drive passion and motivation off a cliff. And yet our cup runneth over with them. Why? Often, it’s because they cultivate the right skills to appear effective at the expense of being eff...

Asthe makeup of the Greater Boston Area seems to be evolving into a more safe and overall PG version of what the city used to be the artistic scenes of the area put up the good fight to maintain their brand of expressionism. One of these stalwarts is Lenny Lashley, one of Boston’s most beloved...

Last year I became interested in film photography. I’m not sure what it was that piqued my interest but I decided I’d give it a shot. So just after Christmas I picked up a Yashica Electro 35 CCN, dubbed the “Poor man’s Leica”. The CCN is a rangefinder camera built in...

The policeman in Brazil is a soldier. The police car is “caveirão” (something like a war tank called “Big Skull”). The entire hierarchy, strategy and training of the police is not just military but war. That’s because at some point we buy into the idea that we&rs...

Abdul Sattar Edhi, A Pakistani Philanthropist and Humanitarian who was the founder of Edhi Foundation also known as “Angel of Mercy”. Born in Gujarat, India on February 28, 1928. The empathy for the humanity was inherited by his mother to him. His mother was a kind hearted women. She use...

I listened to a Twitter space on my way home from the gym. They talked about how Black girls shouldn’t be insecure about making more money than their spouses. Ughhhh. I need to get this out of my system. I’ve seen this all over Twitter (X), particularly in Black spaces. There&rs...

Every year, first-year medical students approach their human cadavers with a mixture of awe and trepidation. They will come to know their assigned cadaver intimately. During the course of their studies, they will carefully pull back layers of skin, muscle and tissue as they learn the fundamentals of...

In the last few years, the parameters of free speech in the UK have again been questioned. Since the 90s it first appeared that qualifications to the right had become few. Blasphemy laws had been repealed, comedy had become far more licentious and pornography abundant. The internet had made it ...

You grow up starving. You do not know what being full feels like. You stand outside local restaurants watching other kids eat. When Manong Guard sees you, he eschews you away with his baton because you’re dirtying up the storefront window and says you’re bad for business. ...

If you grew up poor, there are many things you probably remember about the experience. I realized as a child that things were somewhat different in our home than in the homes of my friends. It’s funny to think back on it now, as an adult who’s much better off financially than during chil...

Now, if you are currently looking for a French name for your baby, of course, some names are in trend, others are outdated. It is sometimes funny for us French to see that some French-sounding names borne by US-American stars are completely outdated and only borne by French grandmas, like Michelle, ...