All three of this week’s ‘good people’ have earned thumbs-up for doing something to help feed people.  Let’s take a look …

Meet Doramise Moreau, a woman with a heart of gold.  Doramise is a widow, 60 years of age, who works part-time as a janitor at a technical school in Miami, Florida.  She usually walks to work or takes the bus because she does not own a car.  Doramise doesn’t have much in the way of money, but she still gives more to her community than most people.  What does she do?  She cooks.  Correction … she cooks over a thousand meals every week to feed the hungry in her community.

Every Thursday and Friday, Moreau borrows her church’s truck to buy groceries. Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church pays for the food, relying on donations. Moreau then prepares the meals singlehandedly, while church volunteers serve or deliver them to…

I think everyone in the world is familiar with Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, a wonderful humanitarian group of doctors and other medical professionals that is best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.  But last night, I came across another group, Mobile Medics International founded by Teresa Gray.  Mobile Medics International sends volunteer medical professionals to disaster areas and humanitarian crisis around the world, and the current crisis in Ukraine is what brought the organization to fame and Teresa Gray to the attention of CNN where she became the latest CNN Hero.

Ms. Gray and the group are based in Anchorage, Alaska, just a 4,500-mile hop, skip, and a jump from Ukraine, but that didn’t stop them.  When they deploy, it’s normally within 72 hours of a disaster to fill the gap before larger groups are fully operational. Their…

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No entendía la brevedad de la existencia. ¿A qué venimos al mundo, si la jornada es tan corta? ¿De qué sirven los momentos dichosos si, al final, cuando alguien parte, derramamos lágrimas y sentimos un vacío muy hondo?¿La vida es real, es sueño, es una prueba, es juego, es el paso temporal por distintas estaciones, es el camino a un destino grandioso?

A mi entrañable amigo, Jorge Palafox Terán, con la gratitud y el recuerdo de siempre.

Lloró inconsolable. Las lágrimas deslizaron por su cutis demacrado al repasar la historia reciente de su existencia, al revisar los capítulos de amor e ilusiones. Miró, una y otra vez, los retratos del hombre de quien se enamoró desde los primeros años juveniles, cuando todo le parecía encantador y prodigioso. Le pareció, a partir de entonces, un gran personaje, un…

These are notes from my Do Better editing journal (separate from my Do Better journal, which records my thoughts about the process while outlining, drafting, and editing this book).

    The overall objective remains that of putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Action Prompts:

1.) Share some ideas you may have on how writing can help to solve homelessness and child abuse, starting right now,

2.)   Write a story, post or tweet that uses those sources and your thoughts.