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I Was Homeless And Lived In My Car
This is a true story. My husband and I were homeless and lived in our car, a storage unit, and a tent for over two years. We were not homeless because we were alcoholics or drug users. We were the average...
17 commentsMoney Cannot Buy Happiness. Really?
I must have heard this expression a thousand times since my school days. It’s one of those worldly facts which we keep assimilating, passively, without even questioning their validity and relevance in the...
24 commentsAMERICAN GIRL: New Homeless Doll
Is the world ready for homeless dolls? Mattel Corporation, purveyors of all things fun and entertaining thinks so. Mattel has added a homeless doll to their American Girl collection, and has people up in arms...
25 commentsThe Miracle of Microfinancing
By definition, microfinancing is referred to as, "a means of extending credit, usually in the form of small loans with no collateral, to nontraditional borrowers such as the poor in rural or undeveloped...
0 commentsHomeless Eviction and Prevention Fund
HEP Fund no longer deals in basic "Damage Deposit" or first/last month benefits in emergency situations for most clients who approach HEP these days. (I learned this, May 2009) I know you are thinking,...
9 commentsWhat Is Wrong In America?
Hello reader, I am positive, you are not aware, of the many burdens happening in your life or why you are forced to feel them. How ever, what I am going to reveal is a specific conclusion, I reached after...
14 commentsHomeless Children: The Growing Epidemic
The typical image of a homeless person is a male in his mid 30’s to late 60”s living in abject poverty. You see him hanging out at soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and on street corners. His mobility...
7 commentsBecoming Homeless: a "How To" Guide
Now that we are all just a few paychecks away from homelessness (incidentally, we always have been, but we didn't need to worry about it then because we had jobs and retirement plans), we should review our...
9 commentsWhat's a Conservative and What's a Liberal?
I used to carpool with an old, blind professor to the small college I attended and he use to tell me, praphrasing Gore Vidal, that politics came from two words: poli, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood...
18 commentsOn the Streets of Shenzen China
My calloused heart, soul, and mind are obsessed with the memory of a man, whose name I will never know. Our eyes once locked on a human being jam-packed soiled street in Shenzhen, China. There were no words...
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