Millionaire Monks

Father Bernard McCoy found printer cartridges “sinfully expensive.” So he convinced his fellow monks at Our Lady of Spring Bank Abbey to form a company called Laser Monks, vowing to ship all sorts of products for less. The monks became millionaires. It didn’t last....

Urban Pioneers

Who does not yearn to live life more simply?  To find a place where time is not sliced too thin for thought.  Daniel Stalb and his wife Kristen decided to try.  They managed to live a comfortable life by doing what seemed to he impossible, living off...

Beyond Sight

Pete Eckert began to see the day he went blind.  Photography may be the least likely career for a man who has no sight, but Eckert believes you don’t have to see — to have a vision of what life can be.  “I found that my other senses brought enough...

Any U.S. College for Free

/A small town is booming after years of decline, all because of a promise made and kept. Most of us have people who set the pace for our lives. Claiborne Deming leads with hope.  He has given the kids in Eldorado, Arkansas, a promise.  Anyone who goes to...

Freebytes Computers

Charlie Shoefield and his friends wondered what happened to all those old computers littered along the information highway.  Left to gather dust when companies upgraded their systems.  They set out to find them.  Fix them up and give them to...

Puppets

Mike Manteo has hung onto his childhood things.  They hang in the dust-combed darkness of his electrical shop.  Puppets.  The last of their kind. Carved from solid oak, dressed in buffed brass.  Polished and repaired by a proud man who found in...