“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” ~ Margaret Heffernan I received some good news this week. I was selected as a finalist for ReThink Energy Florida’s Energy Innovator…
In December 2014, when I started planning the KidPower2015 Earth Day Project for the Children of Inmates, Inc. (COI) Spring bonding visits, I asked my son, Zachary, if he would consider gifting the project with a theme song. I am so happy that he…
Potential energy: the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others, stresses within itself, electric charge, and other factors. Earth Day 2015 is upon us and I am excited about how our KidPower2015 Earth Day…
“Inspiration: an inspiring or animating action or influence…” My second journey to Cambodia began in September 2014 with a team of old and new friends. Our team worked alongside Teen Challenge Cambodia to build a…
Something special happened yesterday on our fifth and final day of Children of Inmates, Inc. (COI) Spring Bonding Visits. While I was at Everglades Correctional Institution, I realized that our KidPower2015 Earth Day Project had truly released…
It’s been a busy week! On Saturday, two of our KidPower2015 Earth Day Ambassadors, Annabelle and Destiny, took one of our new bikes out for a spin. This is one of the bikes that we will be using to construct the bicycle generators for the…
Yesterday, I received an email from Pastor Nora Catipon (founder of the Cambodia School of Missions, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia), sharing two photos of the brand new well that had been installed at her student, Pastor That’s house-church. I was…
This week, I am traveling across the State of Florida for the Children of Inmates (COI) program. One of the exciting things COI kids will be participating in this spring is a joint project with the kids at Hollywood Central Elementary School and the…
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from my family to yours! We just received our “official” family Christmas pictures and I am amazed that another year is drawing to a close. So many great things happened in 2014, but there were many…