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VA has plans for homeless veterans
American Cold War Veterans, Inc: Blog Jerry T | November 3rd 2009 by Jerald Terwilliger
VA to lay out plan to end veterans’ homelessness in 3 day summitRecieved from VA–Homeless VeteranToday, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki will lay out his plan to end homelessness among Veterans within five years at the National Summ read more
Center for LGBT Homeless Youth
Gayboomers | November 3rd 2009 by Don Will
Bea Arthur Via a press release: “The Ali Forney Center received a gift of $300,000.00 today from the Estate of legendary actress Bea Arthur. The Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth, a read more
For How Long?
Laguna Beat | November 3rd 2009 by John Krill
I didn't realize that the sail boat in yesterday's post was the same one I photographed last week and the same one I photographed this morning and shown here. You realize, don't you, that they have a potty on board and the potty tank has to be emptie read more
What defines you?
Finding Forrest | November 3rd 2009 by Ben
Becky Blanton, a Tennessean, realized she was a writer. What she had to overcome was the idea that she was not homeless.In a talk she gave at TED, Blanton discusses her experience of living in a van for a year with her cat and dog. She talks about he read more
Don’t Miss the Coyotes this Thursday!
Mission Dish | November 3rd 2009 by Phoenix Rescue Mission
Discounted Coyotes tickets are still available with $5 of your ticket purchase going directly to help people at the Mission. read more
Actions of homeless self awareness
Homeless with a name | November 3rd 2009 by Amber
Thrown into a new worldHurled into hunger of many typesCursed with povertyChoked with tears of emptinessCraved belonging to somewherePainful loneliness without hopePulsing fear of no changeCrushed dreams of yesterdayCrashing realization of homelessne read more
A day in the Park, A day in the Life
Living, Loving, Laughing | November 2nd 2009 by Angelia Sims
I realize it’s NaNoWriMo time. I should be building on my measly 1,610 words, I wrote on day one which was still short by fifty-seven words of the daily goal. Sigh. I should be writing to make up for that and taking advantage of my day off to j read more
Me vs The Homeless Man
Wikigeneration | November 2nd 2009
The rain lightly drizzles as I pulled up on the parking lot. An older gentleman stands outside. I am not sure how long he must have been on the front entrance of China harbor but long enough to get soaked. I slowly walked up and he i read more
Inner city apartment 2
Digital Photo Gallery of Ted Szukalski | November 2nd 2009
Photograph: Inner city appartment 2 Photographer: Ted Szukalski. Some time ago I have captured a photograph of homeless man sleeping in a window of a building in Sydney and I have titled it “Inner city apartment“. Few days ago, as I read more
Comment problem?
Michaelann Land | November 1st 2009 by michaelann bewsee
Someone just left me a long comment about Helen Hatat and though I approved it, it hasn't appeared. if that person would like to write again, we'll give it another try.Atom read more
Camp Runamuck - Heisler Subdivision
Laguna Beat | November 1st 2009 by John Krill
Tides: 01:07 AM 1.36 feet Low Tide 06:10 AM Sunrise 07:23 AM 6.00 feet High Tide 02:12 PM -0.22 feet Low Tide 04:58 PM Sunset 08:24 PM 4.18 feet High Tide read more
Roa and Ches caught in the act on the night before Halloween
Smile and the whole world seems peaceful! | October 31st 2009 by Glenda Brill
It was the night before Halloween. Before going to bed I usually like to drink some skim milk as it helps me fall asleep. I turned off my computer and walked to the kitchen. I switched on the light at the entrance, and the sight at what I saw nex read more
Homeless Happens
Homeless with a name | October 31st 2009 by Amber
We can try to ignore it, turn our heads, or deny it will ever happen to you. It could, just like anything else. We try to prevent illness and we try to prevent poverty, but it can happen and happen without warning. Poverty and homelessness is not a c read more
Join Us?
Laguna Beat | October 31st 2009 by John Krill
Don't worry the Mayor walks by everyday and it doesn't bother him. Tides: 01:41 AM 1.18 feet Low Tide 07:09 AM Sunrise 07:58 AM 5.65 feet High Tide 02:37 PM 0.24 feet Low Tide 05:59 PM Sunset 08:42 PM 4.27 feet High Tide read more
Join the Hannah’s Socks Holiday Sock Drive This Season
Susan Heim on Parenting | October 30th 2009 by Susan Heim
In Toledo, Ohio, on Thanksgiving Day in 2004, four-year-old Hannah Turner helped her mom, Doris, serve food at a local homeless shelter. She saw a man with holes in his shoes and no socks, and she asked her mom if she could offer the man her own sock read more
"Begging" online-- what's left after more homeless cut…
Michaelann Land | October 30th 2009 by michaelann bewsee
Driving through the South End yesterday, I noticed that the can recycling center on Main St. is closed. How far away do people with shopping carts have to go now to redeem their bottles? It's funny that no matter how poor the avera read more
Taking Care
Homeless with a name | October 30th 2009 by Amber
Cold, wet and hungryDirty, sick and thirstySad, weak and thinHomeless with no nameOne voice, one handTwo voices, Two handsMany hearts, many soulsHomeless with a name read more
B.C. introduces law blasted by critics as means to hide homeless…
Law is Cool | October 30th 2009 by Omar Ha-Redeye
The Canadian Press reports: B.C. introduces law blasted by critics as means to hide homeless for Games The B.C. government introduced a controversial law Thursday that will allow police to take homeless people to shelters in extreme weather, but won read more
The year I was homeless
Dr Shock MD PhD | October 30th 2009 by Walter van den Broek
From talented journalist and editor to homeless, to depression, to suicidal…and back again. Impressive story. Hope always, always finds a way. Becky Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, but when depression set in read more
Poverty & Homeless in America
theageofnepotism | October 30th 2009 by alisana
Poverty in America read more
Truly Honored: Front Page of “Roots of Humanity”
Reed What Matters | October 29th 2009 by Jennifer Reed
Reed What Matters made front page of Roots of Humanity: Am I Not Human Website! What a honor to have one of our articles highlighted by them. The article highlighted was Am I Not Human?: Homelessness & Sacramento’s Anti-Camping Ordinances ! Pl read more
Glutathione and Parkinson’s disease: Is this the elephant in th…
MaxResults4U | October 29th 2009 by ken campione
At least 2 decades have past since the demonstration of a 40–50% deficit in total glutathione (GSH) levels in the substantia nigra in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The similar loss of GSH in the nigra in Incidental Lewy body disease read more
Sharing God with homeless people
Princess' Blog | October 29th 2009 by Lavonne
I went out Friday night with some of my family members and had a lot of fun. And on our way home while I was in the parking lot waiting for my son to drive us home a woman with a disheveled appearance approached me. She asked if I could spare a few b read more
Been there
Homeless with a name | October 29th 2009 by Amber
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. - Governor Kathleen BlancoMankind's Pra read more
Tad on Hunger Strike, Friends Vigil on Plaza
Arcata Reporter | October 28th 2009 by Rick Shreve
Tad Robinson, the well known homeless rights activist and local blogger, is entering the second week of a hunger strike. He went to jail last Sunday to serve out a 35 day sentence after an incident during public comment at the January 27 Humboldt Cou read more
Get Hobo Chic and Help the Homeless – Cardboard Looking Home Du…
Jay Garrett's Gadget News | October 28th 2009 by Jay Garrett
This is a cool idea. Make your bed resemble a series of cardboard boxes (even the flatsheet looks like a pavement) with the added bonus of actually doing a bit of good so that you can sleep a little easier. This high quality duvet cover features a ph read more
Blanket Blessings
Just Words | October 28th 2009
Dr. Roy Honeycutt, then president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was at Carson-Newman College to preach a campus revival during my senior year. I remember very little of what he said except that in one service, he did preach from the read more
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