by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jul 16, 2022 | Community Involvement
In 2007, I (and many, many other people) enjoyed reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, about her family’s year-long quest to eat only locally produced food. Barbara Kingsolver is an amazing writer (I’ve particularly enjoyed Flight Behavior, which...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Jun 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
Is a college degree really worth it? With lists circulating of highly successful college drop-outs like Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, and other luminaries, the value of a four-year degree can seem up for debate. Yet research shows that college matters a...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | May 24, 2022 | Community Involvement
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees the freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly. In many ways, the rights guaranteed in the First Amendment are the foundation of our democratic political system. Yet we always have to make...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | May 17, 2022 | Community Involvement
In one of his most famous movies, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Paul Newman said, “I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” This quote is certainly correct when you think about Newman’s vision of philanthropy for the world! In 1982, Paul...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | May 5, 2022 | Community Involvement
I’ve written previously about how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased hunger in the United States. Even before the pandemic, 38 million Americans, including 12 million children, faced hunger, according to Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the...
by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell | Apr 20, 2022 | Community Involvement
One of the best quotes that no one actually said is: “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” (This quote is often attributed to Gandhi, but there is no evidence that he ever said it.) Qatar’s desert climate...
