Goodbye to “The Max”

Next Friday will be my last day in the GAIN office in Burbank. I will miss these halls. 3 apartments and a house purchase. 2 boyfriends 1 child graduating from High school 1 child born The death of my mother I have done a lot of living in the last 8.5 years and it is […]

Ask an Expert

I get caught up in arguments about poverty. It is a topic near and dear to me and I’ve studies and experienced it. I fact check everything. I read articles and studies. Also, I’ve worked in the Welfare to Work program for over 8 years. When I correct you: I am CORRECTING you with authority […]

Stop the stupid Facebook hate

Knee jerk reaction to say that women create children and raise them for the public aid are hateful and ignorant. Carlos Lara and Yunikua Bentley , get your facts separated from rhetoric please.

Feeling Lost and Directionless. I am a Tortoise

I have always been amazed by people who knew where that were going in life and had a plan to get there. Back in my days at public school I was awestruck by the secret lives of my friends who were whole people outside of school – they went on family vacations, had hobbies, were world […]

So I’m boycotting Carl’s Jr

@andyPuzder makes me sad because other than In N Out, @CarlsJr is the only fast food I love. I was thrilled to place a client in a job there last year. Now I am disgusted that their CEO thinks his employees love being in Welfare. Are you kidding me? I wish he would sit down […]

USC Financial Aid Status

okay @uscfinancialaid , here is hoping I am financiang the dream correctly!

Happy Gay Day

Or " Love Wins " day.

Slavery, Dignity, and Human Rights

I’ll just hop into a time machine and tell the naked children being tied and whipped,oiled and sold for manual labor that they are dignified. In fact,I will find my closest human trafficking victim in the sex trade or sweatshop and tell them how f’ing didnified they are. Human equality and civil rights are Homeless […]

True story

I was outside @PandaExpress by Costco in Pacoima Ca with Darla. She ran to the last free chair and scrambled into it while we discussed Subway vs Panda. Suddenly, a dark figure in a baseball cap covered in tattoos rush toward me. I heard the sound of metal and then his whispered voice saying "Please, […]

Help the Charleston Families and Other Assistance agencies in the Neighborhood.

I am still feeling sick about the #Charleston AME shooting last night. I have heard it is not #Terrorism because it isn’t politically motivated and the shooter was “mentally disturbed”. Umm, Sitting Senator Clementa Pinckney was one of the nine victims murdered. I would call that a political shooting, wouldn’t you? At any rate … […]