It was still cold when Emily McCue met a young man just two days out of prison. He had been put on a bus to Louisville even though he wasn’t from Kentucky and had never been to the city before. When he arrived downtown at 2 a.m. he had only the clothes he had worn into prison. He was cold, he was hungry, and he didn’t know what to do.

A caseworker with Sister […]

Susan Spalding (pictured far right) always thought she was going to be a big businesswoman living in Chicago or New York. Does this married mother of four living in Louisville wish now that she were?

“Oh no. Not at all. Not at all.”

And to prove it, she notes that her […]

Be happy. No matter what.

That’s the life philosophy of TiDal Garrett, a 2020 graduate of Common Table whose soup is featured this week in the program’s soup and bread subscription series.

It’s a simple philosophy, he admits, but not necessarily easy. “But you just have to be happy, no matter what, you know? Because it could always be worse.”

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How do you go from working as a county clerk to becoming a connoisseur of hot sauce? For Chef Eneitra Beattie, it was a fairly straight line.

“I worked as a county clerk for five years, got burned out, and just walked away,” she explains. At an employment resource center, […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The day the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, life was drastically upended for hundreds of thousands of people who live there. Months later, more than 200 people are resettling in Louisville with the help of local charities.

Mohammad is one of them. He was born and raised in Kabul and built a family of 10 with his wife there. As a member of the Afghan National Army, he said he worked with the U.S. […]

Luci Poree has tasty plans for her future. She’s picturing a food truck, home cooked meals, soul food … and being open all night instead of all day.

“Emergency responders like police, firefighters, doctors, and nurses work late night shifts and have a hard time […]

She was trying to drive to St. Louis Bertrand for mass Tuesday morning, but her GPS just wasn’t getting her there. Not from Louisville, Joan finally pulled over to the side of the road and said, “St. Michael, will you get me to the parish I need to be at today?” She looked up and noticed she was already there: Holy Name Catholic Church, the backyard neighbor of Catholic Charities’ Fourth Street location.

She went in and attended mass and, when […]