Giving Back & Lighted Christmas Balls

Giving Back & Lighted Christmas Balls

What started as a homemade Christmas decoration nearly 30 years ago has continued to be something much bigger…and brighter.  As the end of January 2023 quickly approaches, we wanted to report on the annual Sunset Hills neighborhood Lighted Christmas Balls and its “Shine the Light on Hunger” efforts. If you’re unfamiliar, you can read our…

Abigail Disney and Money Conversations
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Abigail Disney and Money Conversations

I recently ran across an interview with Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (posted here at New York’s The Cut What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend.) It is a surprisingly vulnerable and honest insight into the real-life impact (both good and…

Lighted Christmas Balls – 2017 Update

Lighted Christmas Balls – 2017 Update

  It’s hard to go anywhere in our city in December without the conversation turning to the Lighted Christmas Balls, the Food Drive and the Running of the Balls. If you’ve lived in Greensboro twenty-one years or less, you’ve never known a December without Lighted Christmas Balls. In 1996, our daughter, Alison, came home from…