I have six children, whose ages range from kindergarten to high school, and their interests and aspirations vary as widely. My oldest child is a 10th-grader and well on her way to being a designer, although a recent summer camp has expanded her focus to include consideration of industrial design and, perhaps, architecture. My oldest […]
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Home school: Not a revolution, but a movement
I recently went to my first parent-teacher conference of the new school year, and it was unlike any I’d previously attended. It was literally a “parent-teacher” conference, because my wife and I are our youngest children’s parents and teachers. While the Wake County school population explosion has many parents hustling to adjust to a year-round […]
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The Extreme message of the season
The recently completed Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project in Raleigh was a scripted Christmas miracle. Hollywood celebrities came through on a shiny white horseer, busand, aided by a local builder with a heart of gold, saved the day for a struggling-yet-deserving family. The community came out in droves, demonstrating generosity and love, confirming the best […]
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The smoking elephant in the room
“They say the city make a dark impression The youth just lost and they want direction But they don’t get the police, they get the protection And walk around with heat like Charlton Heston, man.” –Rapper Black Thought, of The Roots In recent weeks, a series of shootings have smacked the nation across its face, […]
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Necessary evil: The business of nonprofits
What happens when nonprofit charitable organizations–those harbors in the storm and refuges of last resort for so many desperate Americans–face the confounding quandary of having expenses and obligations that exceed their income? A sad illustration of that very scenario took place a couple of months ago in Wake Forest, where Operation Harvest, a food bank […]
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Year-round problems
As May melts into June, I glance up at the calendar and notice that we’ve come to the end of another school year. Or have we, in light of the year-round school talk? The inexorable challenge of keeping up with the Triangle’s unrelenting population growth, especially in Wake County, has long been a major issue […]
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Praise the Lord and pass the mic
This week, several churches and individuals around the country will host “Holy Hip Hop House Parties.” These gatherings will be in celebration of the release Tuesday of a locally produced DVD documentary that chronicles the rapidly growing Holy Hip Hop movement. “Holy Hip Hop?” you ask. Yep. Things done changed. Even if the concept seems […]
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There’s a war going on
I have a fairly high threshold of obliviousness regarding certain aspects of popular culture. Must See TV, Hollywood romances and stuff like that no doubt makes a whoosh noise as it whizzes over my head. Consequently, I was caught off guard by recent news of The War. I’d initially tuned the information out, thinking, as […]
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Suits me
A couple of weeks ago, the NBA announced–or decreed, rather–that they were implementing a new and stringent dress code for its most highly paid and highly visible employees. Several NBA players promptly spoke out against the rule, deeming it, at best, a capricious infringement on their individuality and self-expression and, at worst, a veiled, racist […]
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Poverty of values
A recent Reuters article described poverty in the United States as a chronic ill, with little hope for resolution. This came a little over a month after the annual U.S. Census report on parity, a late August event that ordinarily passes without much notice outside of public policy and humanitarian circles. This year, however, the […]
