God Blessed us with Mollie

When I decided to focus in social work, I chose to specialize in Homelessness. I searched and researched all of the programs, services, and outlets serving the most marginalized of America’s citizens. I found LAMP and stalked them for months until they finally agreed to interview me. My first interview was with Mollie Lowery. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-lopez-lowery-20160725-snap-story.html […]

Dreams on fire

When I was 10 years old I had a recurring nightmare. I dreamt that my family and I for it power station wagon driving through the desert. And the world was on fire. We were stopping at gas stations to get gasoline so that then we could race from one gas station to the next […]

Staples

This is what 1 month of used staples looks like. 70% of social work is done in paperwork. #staples @Staples #paperwork

I was a Republican Conservative

I was a proud Republican Conservative until it became my job to help people live in dignity. You can be proud to be an American And love your neighbors who are not. You can disagree with the leadership And express that in words requiring thought. You can wade into poverty To pull out people who […]

#PokemonGOChallenge at the DPSS

So the Santa Clarita Office is a gym …. no work will ever be done here again, on the bright side, sitting in the waiting room just improved 100%!

To Serve and Protect

I think we have discussed my experiences with excellent policing … from the police who came everytime we had to call 911 toward the end of my Great grandmother’s and mother’s lives as their health consistently failed, the police who arrived when I accidentally had a baby in the bathroom, 3 years later when that […]

Homeless Man Owes Government Over $110,000 In Fines For Being Homeless

I’ve seen LAPD use ticketing as a way to control and coerce homeless people. This is crazy http://www.trueactivist.com/homeless-man-owes-government-over-110000-in-fines-for-being-homeless/#.V31hgFh70eB.mailto

Where does debt come from?

Mississippi Rep Misses the Point of Medicaid

My mom died of Type 2 Diabetes. Thank God for @Kaiser because they kept her alive fir years and made her medication affordable. Not every family can afford private health insurance Mend Poverty in Pacoima provides care to people with no insurance in the neighborhood. But in Mississippi the coverage doesnt cover enough. I am […]

LA Brea Tar Pits are Free with EBT

You can Google all the places your EBT Golden Advantage card will grant you admission to. (I think I posted a link on my blog once). One of those places is the La Brea Tar Pits. It is a cute little Museum which is about a half an hour walk around inside and a park […]