by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Waking up day three. The first thing on my mind is food. Usually I would flip on NPR, make coffee, start notes for the day, plan out the ideas I had for work. Usually my mind begins working from the time I open my eyes. But not today. Instead I’m am thinking...
by admin | Feb 10, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Day 3 and we’re already seeing some changes. Hmm… Things Heather and I have in common currently: We’re not starving by any means, but we feel hungrier than normal and think about food a lot! We are drinking a lot more water. We feel awkward going out. A...
by admin | Feb 8, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
This is Jan from A-SPAN (Should be easy to remember). Like Heather, I work to raise awareness and funding for a population at risk: the homeless of Arlington, Virgina. An anonymous sage shared with me that “homelessness isn’t a genetic disease or something you...
by admin | Feb 1, 2011 | SNAP Challenge: Living on $30 a Week
Up until now I thought I understood hunger. Understood what it means to be without the kinds of food I find healthy and desirable, and what it may mean to live as many of my hungry and homeless neighbors do. Hunger and feeding people is something I think and talk...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Franciscan Center, Stories from the Center
You could hear the laughing from the front door. It isn’t everyday that we have the innocent laughter of young kids at play in our dining room. A mother and her two small boys were making their way through the line, picking up treats and hot cocoa on this Warm...
