Are you looking to do more this holiday season than spend money? Think outside the gift box and volunteer for one ofthe more than 260 nonprofit organizations in Wichita, many of which have holiday opportunities. But how can you decide which organization is a good fit for you? The United Way of the Plains Volunteer Center is ready to match you to an opportunity to do good things, this holiday and every day.
According to Volunteer Coordinator Becky Springer, the United Way Volunteer Center has helped match 7,000 …

You’ve heard the saying, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”  Every person and every family has a glass house they would rather no one know about, but former MSNBC.com columnist Jeannette Walls has given an open invitation to view hers in The Glass Castle: A Memoir, a story about her life as a child.
The story of Walls’ life begins when she is only three-years-old and ends up in a hospital after being severely burned while cooking hot dogs in a frilly and not flame-resistant costume.   She doesn’t understand why …

Come, friends, and listen to a cautionary tale. There was a married couple who thought they were money savvy. But, it turns out they were really, really delusional. After years of accumulating credit card debt, something had to give and this sad couple ended up doing the unthinkable… filing for bankruptcy. It was a humbling and humiliating experience for this middle-class, college- and grad school-educated dynamic duo who, at one time, thought they had it all figured out.
Many years later, this couple is back on the …