Don’t hunt the homeless

Kindness in action

As this lady was walking around and looking for cigarette butts and change on the ground, the local bus pulled up. A woman who works at a restaurant exited the bus with a bag full of individual sizes and servings of soup. She smiled and waited patiently to be noticed and offered soup to our […]

Study: California’s homeless students could fill Dodger Stadium 5 times | KTLA

https://ktla.com/news/california/study-californias-homeless-students-could-fill-dodger-stadium-5-times/ This breaks my heart. Each of these students has a parent, so 10 Dodger stadiums filled with young families.

Nearly 270,000 K-12 students are homeless in California, says UCLA study – Daily News

https://www.dailynews.com/nearly-270000-k-12-students-are-homeless-in-california-says-ucla-study

Give a little and clutch your pearls less, Arcadia California

I am still on the city of Arcadia’s Facebook page for residents and people who have been old school residents of that little city, 19 miles east of Los Angeles. I loved growing up there. It was a perfect place to be a kid. I did little league, dance classes through the community, I volunteered […]

Art , feelings in chalk

The room where I normally do therapy at the homeless shelter was busy today. There was no room for me. So I went to the 99 cent store and bought some sidewalk shock. I should have thought about what I was wearing and not been wearing a dress when I decided this would be a […]

When your AA meeting is where you live

I went to AA meetings in the park. The meetings would end and people would peel off to leave. Eventually I would be the last one there: because I had nowhere to go. I was home. I was homeless. I lived in that park

A Memory of Eddie Van Halen

We were at the Ellen show and they had just finished “Jump”. I’d been with them for 3 days while they were in rehearsal. After it was over, Eddie came to me and kissed me on my cheek. Right on my right cheek. He said thank you for all you’ve done for us. -B.B B.B. […]

From Heather Cox Richardson

Hi, let me preface this post that I’m sharing by telling you that I am a Republican and have voted Republican for a very long time. I was a fan of Trump’s but I did not vote for him for president because during his election I got an insight to what his true character is […]

Mangliu is a name for a group of homeless people

A group of homeless people is known as ‘Mangliu’, which means the ‘blindly floating population’. An even better name for them? VOTERS.