Tag: good news
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A family trip and a good night’s rest
By The Foundation for a Better Life The 1950s saw the family road trip go mainstream. Travel, once assigned only to the upper class, was suddenly the thing to do in America: Load up the family car and take to the burgeoning interstate system that rolled out of the major cities and coursed through the…
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The bus driver who makes the bus ride the best part of the students’ whole day
By The Foundation for a Better Life For an elementary school student, the bus ride can be a nerve-racking start or end to the day. There are occasional bullies to worry about, homework anxiety, friend group inclusion, and those rainy days when waiting at the bus stop can seem like forever. Bus driver Curtis Jenkins…
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‘Couldn’t’ was never part of Kayleb Wagner’s vocabulary
By The Foundation for a Better Life For some people, there seems to be far more reason not to achieve than to try. It might seem simpler to give up, to say, “Life has not been fair to me; why try?” But for Kayleb Wagner, every setback has been a challenge to overcome, to step…
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0.4.0 – TEST – ‘Couldn’t’ was never part of Kayleb Wagner’s vocabulary
By The Foundation for a Better Life For some people, there seems to be far more reason not to achieve than to try. It might seem simpler to give up, to say, “Life has not been fair to me; why try?” But for Kayleb Wagner, every setback has been a challenge to overcome, to step…
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The pigeon that saved 194 soldiers during World War I
By The Foundation for a Better Life The lowly pigeon, or so many people think. They clutter the streets of big cities and leave their signature droppings on civic statues. They neither hunt nor forage in the woods but rather collect scraps from generous tourists and senior citizens. The life of a pigeon is one…
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A child’s birth should not dictate their destiny
By The Foundation for a Better Life At the beginning of the 19th century, there was no organized education system in America. If you were wealthy, you could attend private academies and study overseas in prestigious institutions. But the common man had no options, just a life of labor. Horace Mann became the Secretary of…
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The leadership of George Washington
By The Foundation for a Better Life At the time of the Revolutionary War, European commanders enjoyed battles from a distant perch. War was like a giant gameboard with leaders safely observing and making commands by day and accommodated at night in the accoutrements one expects while glamping. Territories were fought over in this “gentlemanly”…
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The ongoing great experiment – America at 250
By The Foundation for a Better Life The date was September 17, 1787. Philadelphia, the largest city in North America, was designed by William Penn in a grid system intended to stretch all the way west to the Schuylkill River. Yet all 40,000 inhabitants were crowded into a few blocks on the eastern waterfront. Unpaved…
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A history of humanitarianism
By The Foundation for a Better Life In the mid 1800s, a boy from Scotland arrived in America, his parents seeking a better life. Andrew Carnegie had nothing but a pocket full of dreams and a love for heroes like Robert Bruce and William Wallace. But it was the American story of Horatio Alger to…
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One-time Olympic prodigy is still making waves
By The Foundation for a Better Life Donna de Varona is an American swimming legend who made history as a 13-year-old Olympic prodigy. The youngest athlete at the 1960 Rome Olympics, she went on to win two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics at age 17. De Varona was recognized as the “most outstanding…