Should I Leave My Job?

We are making great strides at ending homelessness and connecting people in that community to mental health and substance programs. I am FINALLY doing therapy with this population. My boss is great. So… what’s the problem? Well, yesterday was my two year anniversary at Tarzana. I was expecting to do my annual review. I’m expecting […]

Entitled Parenting

Today was child maintenance day in my household, and that kind of wrapped up a big week for our family. Today and yesterday my youngest child was on the news discussing the park that she goes to. I have to go to work every single day. Where I work does not care that we’re having […]

Love is Trans-formative

Love changes you. Love for something outside of yourself allows you to change the world. Love for your fellow man makes you want to make the world a better place for everyone. You may, or may not, know that I used to be a Sunday school teacher and I am a practicing Methodist which is […]

FedEx Lost My Package and Did Not Tell Me!

why @FedEx … Why!!!@alon I have masks special ordered in the package and some are for the homeless patients. I am soo tired of sewing so I found @Contrado – but now the masks are lost.

I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.

Okay, If you just sang that in your head, you are as old as I am and loves Tom Patton and super chicken. My point is however, I made a conscious decision to work in a dangerous job. I make the decision everyday to go into environments with gangsters and drug dealers and mentally ill […]

@1800Got Junk Bait and Switch

I help a lot of people move in and out of shelters, encampments, apartments, and sometimes garages. Occasionally we find that people accumulated more than they needed and sometimes it is junk that needs to be thrown away. I don’t like to refer any program or service I have not first tried. Fortunately I hate […]

Special Ed LAUSD Distance Learning

Distance learning is challenging for everyone. For children and families with IEPs and special learning needs it can be a challenge to sanity and peace. LAUSD has published this PDF about their program and what you can expect. Students may and learn in a variety of online learning environments including but not limited to: small-group […]

Hope of the valley’s new bridge housing

For some reason I always get lost and go to one of the other sites. It’s amazing that the Crafts and their people have enough love for humanity to build so many shelters and make such a great impact. It is easy to miss so look for the numbers on the roof and go all […]

The nude dude

Adventure in case management

My mask

So I thought it would be fun to put my face on a mask so that people can see what I look like. But the picture came out way too big and now I look like some kind of troll and I love it.