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Target and Starbucks recently dropped their names from their logos. The Starbucks logo change reflects their belief that they are big enough to not need the name. They’ve transcended the need for letters–it’s so 20th century. Although many reactions to the Starbucks logo change have been negative, I believe this change attempts to connect to…

It seems that everyone knows the story of one homeless man in Ohio. Ted Williams is now known as the homeless man with the golden voice. The first YouTube star of 2011, Williams is a homeless man with an amazing voice. His discovery may make his homelessness a thing of the past as he’s now…

On November 15, 2010, HopeChest launched Change Their Story–a campaign to empower our supporters to raise money from their friends and family during Christmas. Instead of buying more things, 75 families decided to join HopeChest in changing the story for children. In 45 days, those 75 volunteers raised $52,275.94–exceeding our original $50,000 goal. Each participant…

$355 million is the jackpot at stake in this week’s Mega Millions lottery played in 40+ states. It’s one of the largest jackpots in the history of US lottery.  “Did anyone win the Mega Millions?” Yup. At least two people will be splitting the Mega Millions mega jackpot. Two people woke up this morning a…

That’s the question I’m hoping to answer while on this trip. We landed this morning in Miami at 5:15 am EST which is 3:15 am Colorado time. At noon we will take a flight Puerto Plato, Dominican Republic, stay the night and head to Haiti in the morning. Here’s what Jon Egan, lead singer of…

This just gets weirder and weirder. The post I wrote yesterday reported that 2,000 birds had fallen out of the sky dead as a door nail. Now, the report is over 5,000 birds and now that the autopsies are in, they definitely died from trauma. In all likelihood, internal bleeding from the fall. But still no one knows how…

Today, I’m leaving for Haiti with a few of my good friends, Jon Egan who is the lead singer for the Desperation Band and Meredith Andrews a popular Christian singer. What do we all have in common? We love orphans.  We’ll be flying into the Dominican Republic then driving across the border to visit several orphanages in the outlying areas of…

We’ve all heard the nursery rhyme, “Chicken Little” where the main character is crying out that the sky is falling. Well, a real-life chicken little event occurred on Friday night, December 31, 2010. In Beebe, Arkansas, outside of Little Rock, 2,000 red-winged blackbirds fell dead from the sky. What makes this so strange is that…

I take a pilgrimage every year back through the previous year as I look forward to the new one. This is by far the most important thing I do the first week of every January. Success and failure have everything to do with how we pray, think, and act about what we want to accomplish.…

For the first two days of the year, neither is mine. Apple is promising to have it fixed by Monday, so make sure connect to the software update. Apple and the BBC said, “We’re aware of an issue related to non-repeating alarms set for January 1 or 2,” Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said. “Customers can…

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