Entries from November 2009

November 23, 2009

Vocation Is

Vocation is a scary word.  I don’t think I ever heard it until orientation during my freshman year of college, and then suddenly, we were bombarded with questions such as, “Who am I?”  “Where am I going?”  “Why am I here?”  I mostly shrugged them off.  It was clear to me that I was Amanda [...]

November 22, 2009

Some Good Comes Out of Hickory

In spite of the many southerners in Hickory, NC that are “hard up” for employment and other good fortune, Hickory-ite Jeffrey Weber stands alongside such successful citizens as Katie Holmes.

 
No really, he’s standing beside her.

While the rest of Hickory wasted their time getting into the furniture and textile businesses, Weber had enough sense to know [...]

November 10, 2009

The H-k-y Featured in the Washington Post

Well shoot.  My small-ish hometown of Hickory, NC is finally featured in the Washington Post…but this, my friends, is NOT good news.  No, similar to a good 80% of all stories in big papers around the US at this point in time, Hickory shows up in yet another article about unemployment in the economic crisis.
Just [...]