Measure By How Far We Have Left To Go   “Don’t calculate your arrival time based on how far you’ve come, calculate based on how far […]

Lift-Off   On the table rested a newspaper clipping.  The article announced that the SpaceX Crew Dragon 2 would launch at 2:49 am that night.  A […]

What comes to mind when you hear the term Positive Deviant – an optimistic misfit, an affirming nonconformist, a heavy metal band with uplifting lyrics?  In […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a lot to say about poverty as well as racial injustice.  I wrote this post for the Microcredit Summit Campaign’s […]

Imagine this:  A Stanford sophomore envisions a medical device that can run hundreds of blood tests on just a pinprick of blood.  The device would be […]

This is a lightly edited version of a meditation that I wrote trying to explain the meaning of Christmas without using the words God or Jesus.  I […]

The Soul of Finance site deals with people and organizations that use finance for good.  So, on this Giving Tuesday, I am making my recommendations for […]

I have worked for charities all my adult life. When I finished university, I started work with World Relief, where I helped train staff and volunteers […]

A Review of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.    “People always lecture the poor: ‘Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!’ But with what raw […]

For those of you from more advanced countries with the metric system, the title to this post is “3.1 Kilograms and 42.2 Kilometers.” On Sunday, October […]

  A review of the book Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth Every day the news provides us with more examples of how we as humans continue to fail […]

  Too Much Noise to Be Heard? In this current political environment, not only in the US but in many other countries as well, it is […]