I’ve Got That Feel-Good Feeling

I’ve Got That Feel-Good Feeling

Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing a candidate from a local fellowship program to see whether she might like to spend her year working with DHC. She asked me one of the best questions I think I’ve ever been asked by an applicant: What makes you excited...
some days, It’s a Pressure Cooker

some days, It’s a Pressure Cooker

And then, and always, the steam finds a way out. So, to be completely transparent, I penned a blog with a very different tone for this post about a week ago. I knew as I was writing it that I was a little out of sorts. The piece came out cranky, impatient, maybe a...
Shh . . . Do you Hear The Music?

Shh . . . Do you Hear The Music?

If I quiet the noise around me, I can still hear the echoes of trombones that played last Thursday night in the backyard of The Bungalows. Zeb and the guys close out every DHC block party with “When The Saints Go Marching In.” The tradition traces back to a request...
What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?

Just about two months ago, in my last blog, I teased a big announcement related to our capital improvements efforts at The Bungalows. Here it is: On March 11, DHC’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the replacement of water heaters in every Bungalows unit this...
Finding peace.

Finding peace.

In what seemed to me like the longest January on record, here’s a glimpse of quiet moments that stuck with me: Mid-month, Dave and I jumped in the car on a whim and drove up the road to Spencer, NC. We were hoping to arrive in time to see the Texas monks on their walk...
What we do, we do together.

What we do, we do together.

Did you see it? It was gone in a flash, but while it lasted . . . What a night it was! Just last Saturday evening, neighborhoods all around Davidson lit up the night in a silent and beautiful display of support for affordable housing. It was another record-breaking...