It takes a lot of faith and belief in something to want to envision its future, to spend your time tending to it, nurturing it and witnessing its growth. There’s also much to be said for determination, hard work and consistency. Something caught the eye of Downtown Greensboro Inc.

The movie The Kings Speech tells the story of a King abused as a child. In a royal household, the boy suffered emotional abandonment, vicious pinching and, when he stammered, humiliating reprimands.

In the last year and a half, Ive watched one of my best friends, Tim Lafollete, battling a cruel monster called ALS. This is both the most beautiful and most difficult time of my life. So my answer was complex and cathartic.

Hal Sieber’s gift to Guilford County is he modeled how to be a true friend across cultures.

It was as I was talking to Jason that an attractive Turkish woman named Asli, whom I had recently friended on Facebook, started to send me instant messages.

Hypocrisy and double-standards are to be expected from the old media, but mainstream journalists seem intent upon lowering the bar further still, alienating what remains of their dwindling audience.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to post it on Facebook... did it ever really fall in the first place? I pondered this thought while on my knees in the alley behind a local internet caf earning a few free minutes of wi-fi so I could update my status.

My name is Joanne (Fogle) Franco. I was born in Greensboro in 1956 as the fifth of six children. During our pre-school years, my parents protected us and I would even go so far as to say they sheltered us from all issues of racism. My parents were living examples of what true belief in Gods love means.

If a corporations purpose is to provide the highest rate of return with the least risk in the shortest amount of time, is there nothing wrong with Randall Kaplan and the Urban Hotel Group maneuvering to leverage tens of millions of other peoples money for a hotel in downtown Greensboro?

This is in response to Brian Clarey's May 12 account of my impromptu interview in his office where we discussed the possibilities of my interning with his publication ["Writers and their stories"].

Nothing but a tiny ball of orange fur when we first purchased her in Conway, SC, Trixie was named after the character on "The Honeymooners" for when she broke out of the pack of tiny creatures on the carpet, she trembled and showed us her first nasty trick.

It is December 2009 and one more hero has bit the dust in a world of capitalistic focus during the time of thanks and giving. The media caught the hero Tiger Woods with his guard down. His force shield was penetrated and the false idols that supported his perfect reign are peeling away.

Women, where do you turn when you know something is not right "down there"? You may have thoughts such as, "Will my husband still love me if we can't have intercourse?" "I'm too embarrassed to talk to my doctor." "Maybe this is normal. It'll go away.".

It seems like the other day we watched in horror as those buildings collapsed to the ground on live TV. Sept. 11, 2001 changed the face of our society. It has given us such evolutionary things as the "War on Terror" wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the USA Patriot Act and the continued dismantling of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Jordan, I feel inclined to comment on your article in the most recent issue of YES! Weekly entitled Seatbelt checkpoint nets one arrest [June 3, 2009; by Jordan Green].

Mr. President, The entire nation is looking forward to change for the better, both at home and abroad, after eight miserable years of the Bush presidency. Among those most concerned and hopeful are the Muslim citizens of America who have suffered tremendously during these eight years.

While channel surfing on Sept. 10 I stop for a minute on C-Span. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) is speaking. Something makes me stop surfing and listen. He’s saying that for 30 years our nation has had the wrong energy policies. Thirty years. That’s a long time in the life of any of us, I think.