cooling centers

this is the pdf of where you can go to cool off in this gross heat. I personally like the libraries and if you have n EBT card you can try a local museum. http://lacoa.org/PDF/coolingcenters.pdf coolingcenters

Subsidized Child Care

I have never been inside the CCRC office in Chatsworth, although I have referred about 600 families here. Child care is essential for working pare t’s as employers tend to frown on kids being in the office – and child care is expensive. The Los Angeles City Parks and Recreation after school care is […]

So tired

Today at work I probably sat at my desk for maybe 10 minutes. I was so tired by the end of the day that I couldn’t remember if I had told my co-worker I was tired. Since July 4th was yesterday we assume that is automatically Christmas season so we tried singing Christmas songs to […]

Lice

Just once of the costs of poverty

How the Skid Row Neighborhood Council Was Defeated | L.A. Weekly

http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-the-skid-row-neighborhood-council-was-defeated-8326405

Heat wave prep

The Thirst is real. How much water are you drinking today? Do you know where the Cooling Centers are and how to get water to people living on the steeets ?

Internet at the library

Library cards are free. Public libraries are funded with our taxes. You don’t have to pay an entrance fee at the door nor do you have to pay to borrow a book a movie or even a puppet. there are however, late fees. I know this because I paid $33 just today. Possibly the greatest […]

E.B.T. and @CapitalOneCafe ATMs

If you dont like banks, or getting dressed up, and prefer working digitally with little human interaction, then you might be banking at @CapitalOne. I do, but mostly because they let me put a photo on a credit card 4 years ago(…but whatThe ever). So it came to my attention that folks with EBT cards […]

Those people

Here is a really great essay that I found on a website of another mommy blogger. It is about what it’s like to be one of the people who uses a food pantry and be confronted with the bias of people who for needed help. http://www.scarymommy.com/those-people/?utm_source=FB

LAPD & ICE in LA

Immigration raids I’ve been happening and everyone’s concerned. This is information from one of my neighbors. “Just want to share some information that I learned at a staff meeting today. LAPD and Congressman Cardenas office spoke at this meeting regarding immigration relations. Here are the highlights… LAPD does not get involved in asking for immigration […]